Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
The highest happiness of man ... is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable.
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Republicans traditionally say, 'oh, we'll cut domestic spending, but we won't touch the military.' The liberals - the ones who are good - will say, 'oh, we'll cut the military, but we won't cut domestic spending.'
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I didn't grow up with musical influences in my family.
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When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator.
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Prior to the Civil War, most libraries were either privately owned or housed in universities or churches.
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I try to make music that's relevant to my life and relatable to the culture I live in.
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I walk around - people know who I am. I've got friends. I can make ends meet. I grew up around people who have been hustling from the start, so I think I've got a bright little future ahead of me - especially if I don't fight. Why would I want to go out there and fight with somebody, get my face punched and kicked. It's not my idea of a good time.
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I don't know what I'm meant to do. I'm not important, am I? I'm not doing anything that makes a difference.
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You can't tag me as a regional actress.
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Life isn't about quantity, it's about quality.
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I think that our civilisation is very much a visual civilisation - television and videos and all this.
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In a small town, it's either sports or a band with your buddies. I was always athletic. But in college, I was exposed to all this new music, and I was drawn to hip-hop and R&B.
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Lester is the Rock of Gibraltar. Nothing can rattle him. I am not. I was always flying off the handle about things. And the one person who could calm me down and make me realize that none of this silliness mattered was Lester Holt.
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I've met every freak in the business.
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The thing, when you're down two sets to love, is to stay calm, even though it's hard, because people are freaking out, people are worried for you.
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Experts said public companies worry about the loss of customer confidence and the legal liability to shareholders or security vendors when they report flaws.
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I remember one day sitting at the pool and suddenly the tears were streaming down my cheeks. Why was I so unhappy? I had success. I had security. But it wasn't enough. I was exploding inside.
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There are lots of ways to make money in venture capital, and there are even more ways to be mediocre. The industry has too much money and too many smart people chasing too few great entrepreneurs.
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My first book was poetry, but I didn't write it first. I wrote it third. So my first two books were prose.
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I've been a war reporter and a human rights defender. A professor and a columnist. A diplomat and - by far most thrillingly - a mother. And what I've learned from all these experiences is that any change worth making is going to be hard. Period.
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If you set out to write an adjective novel, you're setting out to write a mediocre novel; your allegiance is to the adjective, not to the story, and then that just sucks all the joy right out of it.
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A lawyer's dream of heaven: every man reclaimed his property at the resurrection, and each tried to recover it from all his forefathers.
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The great creative individual . . . is capable of more wisdom and virtue than collective man ever can be.
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The highest happiness of man ... is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable.
