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 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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Today is either the beginning of the end, or the end of the beginning. Today we are making history.
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The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves.
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More and more, cultural groups are cross-pollinating, and we're getting much more interesting art as a result.
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Saints are only sinners who keep trying.
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Previously I always thought it was just tactical and technique, but every match has become almost mental and physical - I try to push myself to move well. I try to push myself not to get upset and stay positive, and that's what my biggest improvement is over all those years. Under pressure I can see things very clear.
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So about twenty years ago I gave up on painting - and got into terrible debt after buying a load of camera gear!
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I think people get satisfaction from living for a cause that's greater than themselves. They want to leave an imprint. By writing books, I'm trying to do that in a modest way.
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Against great advantages in another, there are no means of defending ourselves except love.
