Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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The key to making a good forecast is not in limiting yourself to quantitative information.
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Don't say this is good and that is bad. Drop all discrimination. Accept everything as it is.
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When you label something a singer-songwriter record, you cover many genres.
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I'll risk forty dollars that he can outjump any frog in Calaveras county.
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If a pot can multiply. One day Nasrudin lent his cooking pots to a neighbour, who was giving a feast. The neighbour returned them, together with one extra one – a very tiny pot. 'What is this?' asked Nasrudin. 'According to law, I have given you the offspring of your property which was born when the pots were in my care,' said the joker. Shortly afterwards Nasrudin borrowed his neighbour's pots, but did not return them. The man came round to get them back. 'Alas!' said Nasrudin, 'they are dead. We have established, have we not, that pots are mortal?'.
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Keep your life so constantly in touch with God that His surprising power can break through at any point.
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People regulate their level and distribution of effort in accordance with the effects they expect their actions to have. As a result, their behavior is better predicted from their beliefs than from the actual consequences of their actions.
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There aren't that many galleries in Havana. There are a few state galleries and an ever-increasing but still limited number of independent galleries; there's no comparison with the number in New York.
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I had my boy in Boston on Easter Sunday. That kills me, from a sports perspective. He's a Boston baby and I'm a New York guy.
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None of us are really dumb and none of us are really smart. We're in the middle.
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Man cannot live without some knowledge of the purpose of life. If he can find no purpose in life he creates one in the inevitability of death.
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But nevertheless, the fact remained, it was almost impossible to dislike anyone if one looked at them.
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There are two bodies - the rudimental and the complete; corresponding with the two conditions of the worm and the butterfly. What we call "death," is but the painful metamorphosis. Our present incarnation is progressive, preparatory, temporary. Our future is perfected, ultimate, immortal. The ultimate life is the full design.
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I have reached the conviction that the abolition of the death penalty is desirable. Reasons: 1) Irreparability in the event of an error of justice, 2) Detrimental moral influence of the execution procedure on those who, whether directly or indirectly, have to do with the procedure.
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The Tonys ignored West Side Story. The Tonys ignored Gypsy. It's a kind of public humiliation.
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The alphabet will create forgetfulness in the learners' souls. They will trust the written characters and not remember themselves.
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For the world is Hell, and men are on the one hand the tormented souls and on the other the devils in it.
