Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the Scriptures, but with experiments, and demonstrations.
Galileo Galilei
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The key to making a good forecast is not in limiting yourself to quantitative information.
Nate Silver
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Don't say this is good and that is bad. Drop all discrimination. Accept everything as it is.
Rajneesh
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When you label something a singer-songwriter record, you cover many genres.
Brian Fallon
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I'll risk forty dollars that he can outjump any frog in Calaveras county.
Mark Twain
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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?'.
Idries Shah
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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.
Chester Himes
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But nevertheless, the fact remained, it was almost impossible to dislike anyone if one looked at them.
Virginia Woolf
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I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.
Jane Austen
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Some statesmen go to Congress and some go to jail. It is the same thing, after all.
Eugene Field
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If every man has freedom to do all that he wills, provided he infringes not the equal freedom of any other man, then he is free to drop connection with the state-to relinquish its protection, and to refuse paying toward its support.
Herbert Spencer
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Cold words freeze people, and hot words scorch them, and bitter words make them bitter, and wrathful words make them wrathful. Kind words also produce their own image on men's souls; and a beautiful image it is. They smooth, and quiet, and comfort the hearer.
Blaise Pascal
