Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
When translating one must proceed up to the intranslatable; only then one becomes aware of the foreign nation and the foreign tongue.
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I never cared about modeling. As a model, you're powerless.
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I'm not the same person I was. I used to act dumb. It was an act. I am 26 years old, and that act is no longer cute. It is not who I am, nor do I want to be that person for the young girls who looked up to me. I know now that I can make a difference, that I have the power to do that.
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If there are malpractices in sports, part of the solution lies in the organisations themselves taking a very strong view and cleaning up the mess from within.
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I think there's an energy about just remaining excited. Like, you can't be excited when you're not doing something new.
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Scott and I had just worked with Jimmy Pardo doing a live show over the summer. And it was a lot of fun and we wanted to keep doing a live show. And as Scott said, we knew a lot of funny young people who needed a place to do stand-up. And we were in a place, where we were writing so much that we weren't around live comedy so much, so we kind of missed it.
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I told the guys that something good would come of this. We worked our butts off.
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I am confident that whatever testing is performed on these items, it will substantiate that Mr. Westfall has done nothing wrong and is in no way responsible for Ms. Jones' disappearance. Mr. Westfall and his family ... continue to pray for Ms. Jones' safe return.
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I am but mad north-north-west. When the wind is southerly, I know a hawk from a handsaw.
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Faith is a gift of God.
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Faith indeed tells what the senses do not tell, but not the contrary of what they see. It is above them and not contrary to them.
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Surely it is worthwhile to lay ourselves out with all our might in promoting the cause and kingdom of Christ.
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There are times when sense may be unseasonable, as well as truth.
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I'm getting a little bored by the juxtaposition of American and other cinema. I no longer think this division is as true as it might have been in the 1980s, or the early part of the 90s.
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For women, like tradesmen, draw in the injudicious to buy their goods by the high value they themselves set upon them.... They endeavor strongly to fix in the minds of their enamoratos their own high value, and then contrive as much as possible to make them believe that they have so many purchasers at hand that the goods--if they do not make haste--will all be gone.
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The great crime of our time, says Vonnegut, was to do too much good secretly, too much harm openly.
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I have mastered the principles of several religions. They have all shocked me by the violence which I should have to do to my reason to accept the dogmas of any one of them.
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Even though the moniker 'Vanilla ISIS' is tongue in cheek, it is a reminder to avoid constantly framing the concept of terrorism through an Islam-centric lens.
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If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest.
