Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
Don't give us your doubts, gives us your certainties, for we have doubts enough of our own.
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We refuse to be treated as the doormat for the government to wipe its jackboots on.
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Experiments upon vegetation give reason to believe that light combines with certain parts of vegetables, and that the green of their leaves, and the various colors of flowers, is chiefly owing to this combination.
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I'd never really thought past the whole dying-for-the-sake-of-the-world part of things. When you're alive, you don't dwell on how you're going to spend your time once you're dead. You just figure you're gone, and the rest will pretty much take care of itself.
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The public is so in awe of its own opinion that it never dares to form any, but catches up the first idle rumour, lest it should be behindhand in its judgment, and echoes it till it is deafened with the sound of its own voice.
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It is not conflict of opinions that has made history so violent but conflict of belief in opinions, that is to say conflict of convictions.
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Those moralists, on the other hand, who, following in the footsteps of Socrates, offer the individual a morality of self-control and temperance as a means to his own advantage, as his personal key to happiness, are the exceptions.
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The dome of thought, the palace of the soul.
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...but for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short.
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Remember when you used to watch TV in the Sixties and you'd see Perry Como in a cashmere sweater? That's what rock 'n' roll is becoming. It's your parents' music.
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I work to stay alive.
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If you can't be remarkable, perhaps you should consider doing nothing until you can.
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To converse with historians is to keep good company; many of them were excellent men, and those who were not, have taken care to appear such in their writings.
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I've always been a huge fan of Julia Roberts. Without her what would the world be like?
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A clear victory of satyagraha is impossible so long as there is ill will.
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Photography has always been a passion of mine, but I began to study light field photography when I was in the Ph.D. program at Stanford University.
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Medicine heals doubts as well as diseases.
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I hold to fiction as a cure, or partial cure, or cause for hope, or essential distraction from the rain you wake up to, the doubts in your head, the daily desolation that you have not yet said what is most true, you have not yet crafted the story that reveals you. And therefore something waits. Therefore you must wake and you must write and you are not alone. Your fiction is with you.
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Don't give us your doubts, gives us your certainties, for we have doubts enough of our own.
