Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
Know'st thou yesterday, its aim and reason? Work'st thou will today for worthier things? Then calmly wait the morrow's hidden season, And fear thou not, what hap soe'er it brings.
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I don't know what it's like in the U.S. but immigrants in the U.K. do the jobs the citizens won't do.
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Gossip is when you hear something you like about someone you don't.
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Along with issues like global warming, I think a problem with the world today is population decline.
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People go to extraordinary lengths to get films made.
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I have this dream life where I get to be a celebrity but I get to navigate the world fairly easily because I'm always in character.
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The reason that last-ditch political maneuvering has become business as usual in Washington is that the actors involved are drunk on blame and are convinced that the voting public is, too. They count on outrage, thereby spreading numbness. They cherish the prospect of partisan fury, thereby inspiring nonpartisan disgust.
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The reactions of organic magnesium compounds are of two kinds - reactions of substitution and reactions of addition.
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The rule of my life is to make business a pleasure, and pleasure my business.
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Very often there's this misapprehension about actors being people that need to display themselves, to reveal themselves in public.
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I've never thought in terms of 'men do this' and 'women do that.'
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The value of a dollar is social, as it is created by society.
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If you say you are the Safe Food Foundation, that means you're implying that your food is safer or that every other bit of food that we're eating is not safe. If they were a really honest foundation, they would call themselves the anti-GM foundation.
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Everybody thinks I'm very clean and sort of upright, don't they?
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I adore this adventure, I adore working with youth. For me it's a daily challenge, working to help these youths realize their dreams.
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Expenditure can't really guarantee a great experience. I don't even like shopping; I've never bought stuff for myself, and everything I wear are gifts from my brothers, friends and people.
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How is it even sustainable in 21st-century America that women earn, on average, 77 cents for every dollar earned by men?
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There is nothing more agreeable in life than to make peace with the Establishment - and nothing more corrupting.
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The waves of religion based on terrorism in the 1990s are based on the tormented response of a mutilated Muslim society whose progressive forces have been savagely emasculated. Why on earth is the Arab world so hostile to women? Why can it not see women as a force for development?
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I think cults never stop being interesting and I'm intrigued by how we all do a tiny bit of submitting to a larger group - and how they can sneak up on you.
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The Way It Is There’s a thread you follow. It goes among things that change. But it doesn’t change. People wonder about what you are pursuing. You have to explain about the thread. But it is hard for others to see. While you hold it you can’t get lost. Tragedies happen; people get hurt or die; and you suffer and get old. Nothing you do can stop time’s unfolding. You don’t ever let go of the thread.
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There are African-American families around this country - a large, large number of African-American families - that operate out of complete fear that their kids are going to be taken from them and will do anything to prevent that.
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There has been a tendency through the years for reason and moderation to prevail as long as things are going tolerably well or as long as our problems seem clear and finite and manageable.
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We can gain no lasting peace if we approach it with suspicion and mistrust or with fear. We can gain it only if we proceed with the understanding, the confidence, and the courage which flow from conviction.
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Know'st thou yesterday, its aim and reason? Work'st thou will today for worthier things? Then calmly wait the morrow's hidden season, And fear thou not, what hap soe'er it brings.
