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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If our lives are truly plans of God, someone had better call a meeting soon to remind us, once more, what great miracles we really are.
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JAG is an acronym for the Judge Advocate General, which is the judicial system of the military.
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I love meeting new people and telling them about my stories and my projects that I am working on.
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As long as the hummingbird had not abandoned the land, somewhere there were still flowers, and they could all go on.
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I think I make a difference. I mean a lot to my people. I've done well. They're proud of me.
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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.
