Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
The beautiful is a phenomenon which is never apparent of itself, but is reflected in a thousand different works of the creator.
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In the future, it's going to move from being just a data transport to really becoming a media experience platform. The Internet will be more about media, more about collaboration, much more virtualized and much more green.
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We should reserve the notion of 'morality' for the ways in which we can affect one another's experience for better or worse. Some people use the term 'morality' differently, of course, but I think we have a scientific responsibility to focus the conversation so as to make it most useful.
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The Washington black community was able to succeed beyond his wildest dreams. I mean, we had our own newspapers, our own restaurants, our own theaters, our own small shops, our own clubs, our own Masonic lodges.
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At some point in our life, each of us is very likely to be a care getter or a care giver or both.
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If our opinions rest upon solid ground, those who attack them do not make us angry, but themselves ridiculous.
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The record of a month's roulette playing at Monte Carlo can afford us material for discussing the foundations of knowledge.
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My background is on the stage, so when I'd write movies, they'd be a lot like plays.
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Impotence is one of the major hazards of cigarette smoking.
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A narrator should not supply interpretations of his work; otherwise he would have not written a novel, which is a machine for generating interpretations.
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Today I realize that many recent exercises in "deconstructive reading" read as if inspired by my parody. This is parody's mission: it must never be afraid of going too far. If its aim is true, it simply heralds what others will later produce, unblushing, with impassive and assertive gravity.
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I firmly believe that if you follow these simple rules then you'll have a wonderfully romantic life. They're all so important when it comes to building a strong relationship, especially the very last one.
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Love will fly if held too lightly Love will die if held too tightly . . .
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Good speakers usually find when they finish that there have been four versions of the speech: the one they delivered, the one they prepared, the one the newspapers say was delivered, and the one on the way home they wish they had delivered.
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Like all lawyers, I was delighted by gratitude. It happened so rarely.
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We work and that is godlike.
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A good show makes me happy. It's a great sensation. If you could capture a great atmosphere and do it every time, that would be amazing.
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Accidents will occur in the best regulated families.
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The future. Space travel, or cosmology. Alternate universes. Time travel. Robots. Marvelous inventions. Immortality. Catastrophes. Aliens. Superman. Other dimensions. Inner space, or the psyche. These are the ideas that are essential to science fiction. The phenomena change, the basic ideas do not. These ideas are the same philosophical concepts that have intrigued mankind throughout history.
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Know all things to be like this: A mirage, a cloud castle, A dream, an apparition, Without essence, but with qualities that can be seen. Know all things to be like this: As the moon in a bright sky In some clear lake reflected, Though to that lake the moon has never moved. Know all things to be like this: As an echo that derives From music, sounds, and weeping, Yet in that echo is no melody. Know all things to be like this: As a magician makes illusions Of horses, oxen, carts and other things, Nothing is as it appears.
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The beautiful is a phenomenon which is never apparent of itself, but is reflected in a thousand different works of the creator.
