Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
Against great advantages in another, there are no means of defending ourselves except love.
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Basically, when I went to school in Sri Lanka from age five onward, the classes there were sometimes sorted into a hierarchy of your skin tone. So the fairer-skinned kids sat at the front row, and the darker-skinned kids sat at the back by the poor ones who played out in the street all day long.
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When I was 26, I got offered the Connecticut job, but the ABA started, and I thought I could still play.
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Being a star has made it possible for me to get insulted in places where the average Negro could never hope to go and get insulted.
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Law and order are the medicine of the body politic and when the body politic gets sick, medicine must be administered.
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What I'm trying to do is save and rescue the country if I can, and I'm doing my best to do it.
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The human rights record within China seems to rise and fall over time, but it's very clear that in the run up to the 2008 Beijing Olympics and since then, there's been a greater intolerance of dissent and the human rights record of China has been going in the wrong direction.
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I've stopped caring about skeptics, but if they libel or defame me they will end up in court.
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The great thing about America is I've never felt like an outsider. I'm just a different piece of the puzzle.
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Likewise nanotechnology will, once it gets under way, depend on the tools we have then and our ability to use them, and not on the steps that got us there.
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For nearly as long as civilization has existed, patriarchy - enforced through the rights of the firstborn son - has been the organizing principle, with few exceptions.
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Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
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To stimulate wildly weak and untrained minds is to play with mighty fires.
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The mullahs are part of the past in Iran, not its future. But change in Iran will come through engagement, not through confrontation.
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I've seen 'Silence of the Lambs,' like, fifty or sixty times. That's my favorite movie of all time.
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In 1973, the Supreme Court ruled that individual communities should set obscenity standards. Whenever a case is tried, it will be based on a community standard for that particular place.
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With disadvantages enough to bring him to humility, a Scotsman is one of the proudest things alive.
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He was so excited. He cut out pictures of these landscapes and neighborhoods and kind of really tried to give you a feel of the movie. It was kind of cute but at the same time it really showed his enthusiasm for it.
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It was really a very small company when I started and it changed very rapidly during those first periods.
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When I was six, the Korean War broke out, and all the classrooms were destroyed by war. We studied under the trees or in whatever buildings were left.
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I've had bad luck with both my wives. The first one left me and the second one didn't.
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My interest in Virtual Reality (VR) films began for me when I began a fellowship with MIT's Open Documentary Lab. It was a profound experience to be on MIT's campus one day a week and to enter a new world of storytelling where breaking convention and traditional methods were expected. This was deeply challenging and inspiring.
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People who don't drink are afraid of revealing themselves.
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I am not really wicked. Love me, and you will see.
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Against great advantages in another, there are no means of defending ourselves except love.
