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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I received a D.Sc. from the University of London in 1992.
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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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With all of their benefits, and there are many, one of the things I regret about e-books is that they have taken away the necessity of trawling foreign bookshops or the shelves of holiday houses to find something to read. I've come across gems and stinkers that way, and both can be fun.
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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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Working with women survivors of war has taught me that we need to listen to women's perspectives on war in order to understand how to effectively rebuild a country, a community and a family.
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Asian horror is really setting a trend. The Pang brothers are from Hong Kong, so they just bring a whole different sensibility to a horror movie. In Hong Kong, they're actually doing stuff that's very artistic and pushing boundaries.
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The wisest have the most authority.
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If a guy doesn't work hard and doesn't play well, he can't lead anything. All he is, is a talker.
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This is our purpose: to make as meaningful as possible this life that has been bestowed upon us; to live in such a way that we may be proud of ourselves; to act in such a way that some part of us lives on.
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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.
