Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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The cat is classic whilst the dog is Gothic - nowhere in the animal world can we discover such really Hellenic perfection of form, with anatomy adapted to function, as in the felidae.
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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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There are no absolute certainties in this universe. A man must try to whip order into a yelping pack of probabilities, and uniform success is impossible.
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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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Something different happens to my brain when I put pen to paper: the pace of writing or drawing slows you down and gives you more time for thoughts to come in.
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The advantage of using airships in remote areas with little road infrastructure to support development is clear. Airships could ensure the delivery of humanitarian supplies to remote communities.
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The mind perceives … that it is higher than institutions, which are but the woof and web of its thought and will, which it weaves and outgrows, and weaves again.
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Not even death can wipe out our good deeds.
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Death is Nature's expert advice to get plenty of Life.
