Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
What is the universal? The single case. What is the particular? Millions of cases.
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I'm about a 160, 170 bowler so I feel like I'm pretty good - I'm average, but I don't stink, you know?
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I really appreciate family. I really can't imagine life without them!
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I think the tax cut is ridiculous but so am I.
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I think of my customer as a woman who wants to look beautiful and be able to walk.
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There is properly no history; only biography.
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You reach out your hand, but you're all alone, in those time passages.
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When there's no one else look inside yourself -- like your oldest friend -- just trust the voice within -- then you'll find the strength that will guide your way. You'll learn to begin to trust the voice within.
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God surrounded me with the right team, with the team that I needed to help me exercise all of my ideas. You need that. You need that army, you need that force.
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Medals are great encouragement to young men and lead them to feel their work is of value, I remember how keenly I felt this when in the 1890s. I received the Darwin Medal and the Huxley Medal. When one is old, one wants no encouragement and one goes on with one's work to the extent of one's power, because it has become habitual.
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It is just a wonderful, wonderful time to be alive and to be able to be part of the ever-growing spiritual awareness that is happening around the world.
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The theater is too deep for me. I prefer bicycling.
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But it turns out its not a big deal. The imports help, but not significantly.
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I don't really care whether England are closer to us or not - I believe that it's all about us.
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As long as I get to be doing what I love, which is making comedy and that kind of thing, I feel lucky that I get to.
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It's the centuries, Scarlett darling. All the life lived there, all the joy and all the sorrow, all the feasts and battles, they're in the air around and the land beneath you. It's time, years beyond our counting weighing without weight on the earth. You cannot see it or smell it or hear it or touch it, but you feel it brushing your skin and speaking without sound. Time. And mystery.
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I cured myself of shyness when it finally occurred to me that people didn't think about me half as much as I gave them credit for. The truth was, nobody gave a damn. Like most teenagers, I was far too self-centered. When I stopped being prisoner to what I worried was others’ opinions of me, I became more confident and free.
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The problem is that with blogging, the model is publish first, maybe fact-check later. In newspapers, the model is you fact check first and then publish. But those models are merging.
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A woman who tells her age tells everything, and I won't tell it.
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We neither know nor judge ourselves; others may judge, but cannot know us. God alone judges and knows us.
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Citizens are all equal in politics: we each have one vote.
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I remind myself that I don't have the ability to completely manipulate reality to be exactly what I want it to be.
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Personal participation is the universal principle of knowing.
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What is the universal? The single case. What is the particular? Millions of cases.
