Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
Whatever liberates our spirit, without also giving us mastery over ourselves, is destructive.
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There are two kinds of ham: raw and cooked. Raw ham is cured with salt and/or smoke over time; cooked ham is boiled. Every culture that makes ham has its own unique and various methods.
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Captain Cook discovered Australia looking for the Terra Incognita. Christopher Columbus thought he was finding India but discovered America. History is full of events that happened because of an imaginary tale.
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No one ever became, or can become truly eloquent without being a reader of the Bible, and an admirer of the purity and sublimity of its language.
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Civilisation, the orderly world in which we live, is frail. We are skating on thin ice. There is a fear of a collective disaster. Terrorism, genocide, flu, tsunamis.
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I'm on Tumblr all the time.
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In the context of social media, reddit is more about the media than the personalities.
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I think all girls in the world wish they were a Parisian girl - that sort of effortless chic confidence and comfort in their own skin.
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It's one of the strangest attributes of this profession that when we writers get exhausted writing one thing, we relax by writing another.
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Being on set with my dad - that's so cool. People always ask me if that made me nervous, but it's the same element when you're a kid - when your parents come in the auditorium for those school performances. It calms you.
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Everyone knows nowadays that people 'have complexes'. What is not so well known, though far more important theoretically, is that complexes can have us.
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He said that humanity in the main was crass, stupid, boorish and vulgar, and that I could learn at least this much from you.
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We are all servants. The only question is whom we will serve.
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If we worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true really is true, then there would be little hope for advance.
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I never joined, but I used to go to church now and then. I liked it, because they always passed out plates of money at the end.
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But learned people can analyze for me why I fear hell and their implication is that there is no hell. But I believe in hell. Hell seems a great deal more feasible to my weak mind than heaven. No doubt because hell is a more earth-seeming thing. I can fancy the tortures of the damned but I cannot imagine the disembodied souls hanging in a crystal for all eternity praising God.
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The argument about marriage equality will one day seem as arcane and shocking to us as the fact that Rosa Parks had to get up and go to the back of the bus.
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I paint to evoke a changing language of symbols, a language with which to remark upon the qualities of our mysterious capacities which direct us toward ultimate reality.
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Here's what I've learned: that someone can change the course of history with a box cutter.
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If you want to be a different fish, jump out of school.
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Self-pity is the most destructive of all narcotics.
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...the dust returns to the ground it came from, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.
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Whatever liberates our spirit, without also giving us mastery over ourselves, is destructive.
