Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
We blame equally him who is too proud to put a proper value on his own merit and him who prizes too highly his spurious worth.
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When you have brothers, you learn to be fiercely competitive with someone you love so they won't kill you and you won't kill them.
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It amazes me that talking about traditional values is controversial, but it seems to be.
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I was actually already doing my Ph.D. in neuroscience when September 11 happened. 'The End Of Faith' is essentially what September 11 did to my intellectual career at that moment.
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Dancing is a very healthy thing to do for our body.
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An indictment of entitlements has to focus on the huge 'social wealth' that the welfare state creates at the stroke of the pen. Yet statistical tests of the effects of welfare spending on employment yield erratic results.
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World War II has always been of great interest to me. I've known for decades that it was just one more war the politicians suckered us into.
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Even the worst Bond movies, there's something to love about them.
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It doesn't matter what country or what political system you are from. Space brings you together.
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Not too many people know it, but when I was in junior high, I was a pretty tough kid and was the leader of a street gang. Well, OK, it was less a street gang than an Ecology Club. We were pretty intimidating, though, and had our own meeting room until we got run out of there by a bunch of thugs from the Poetry Society.
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Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation.
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I had a chance to play for the Cuban national team during the 2009 World Baseball Classic, but at the time I never thought about leaving Cuba.
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I need a vacation anyway. They fight me too much. I'm not going to be the one to back out of these fights.
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I'm really starting to think everything happens for a reason.
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There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the passion of life.
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No matter where we come from or where we're going, we've all got memories to contend with, and it's always best not to do this alone!
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The scent and smoke and sweat of a casino are nauseating at three in the morning. Then the soul erosion produced by high gambling - a compost of greed and fear and nervous tension - becomes unbearable and the senses awake and revolt from it.
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Schön war ich auch, und das war mein Verderben.
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What had brought me to New York in the autumn of 1972 was a letter of recommendation written by Norman Mailer, the author of 'The Naked and the Dead' and American literature's leading heavyweight contender, to Dan Wolf, the delphic editor of 'The Village Voice.'
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People is the name of the body, State of the spirit, of that ruling person that has hitherto suppressed me.
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I learned that you shouldn't take your most esoteric concept and fit it into the largest space with the highest fixed costs. It puts too much pressure on the restaurant to hit grand slams every day when there just aren't enough people who want to watch that sport.
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True penance consists in regretting without ceasing the faults of the past, and in firmly resolving to never again commit that which is so deplorable.
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We blame equally him who is too proud to put a proper value on his own merit and him who prizes too highly his spurious worth.
