Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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The radio even weren't allowed to say there was a Holocaust and people were being killed right, left and center in these terrible camps.
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Bipartisanship helps to avoid extremes and imbalances. It causes compromises and accommodations. So let's cooperate.
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Hurry boys, hurry, we have to make a quick change or the hour will be up.
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I would be a terrible person to be in a relationship with because I'm either sleeping or at the theater.
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The quality of instruction is very high at the Silverlake Conservatory of Music. It's not about being a rock star. It's about the fundamentals of music, theory and technique on a particular instrument, and playing in an ensemble or private setting.
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A champion needs a motivation above and beyond winning.
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I would hate to see the idea of freedom disappear, and I wonder if maybe it will.
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Today it is not big business that we have to fear. It is big government.
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And the ability of citizens to organize and advocate for change - that's the oxygen upon which democracy depends.
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Rutherford was a historian, after all, and secretly enjoyed it when the truth did injury to modern sensibilities.
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How alike are the groans of love, to those of the dying.
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Man is always something more than what he knows of himself. He is not what he is simply once and for all, but is a process...
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If you want a lover I'll do anything you ask me to. And if you want another kind of love I'll wear a mask for you.
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I don't know that I'm actually bipolar, but I definitely have huge mood swings, and I'm definitely passionate about the way I feel. I'm not really lukewarm one way or the other.
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Shuffling is the only thing which Nature cannot undo.
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I have lit my treasured candles, one by one, to hallow this night. With you, who do not come, I wait the birth of the year. Dear God! the flame has drowned in crystal, and the wine, like poison, burns Old malice bites the air, old ravings rave again, though the hour has not yet struck.
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The officials want China to be seen as a cultured, creative nation, but in this anti-liberal political society everything outside the direct control of the state is seen as a potential threat.
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Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.
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How evil life must be if it were indeed necessary that such imploring cries, such cries of physical and moral wretchedness, should ever and ever ascend to heaven!
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I wish I could say that the Chancellor of the Exchequer had done himself less than justice. Unfortunately, I can only say that I believe he has done himself justice. Some Chancellors are macro-economic. Other Chancellors are fiscal. This one is just plain cheap.
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In the end one cannot avoid the conclusion that AIDS unites certain human themes - homosexuality, sexual disease, and death - about which society actively resists enlightenment. These are things that we are unwilling to address or even think about. We don't want to understand them. We would rather fear them.
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I'm certainly not squeamish at all. The countryside makes you very aware of birth and death.
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Death is Nature's expert advice to get plenty of Life.
