Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
Against great advantages in another, there are no means of defending ourselves except love.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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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.
M.I.A. -
When I was 26, I got offered the Connecticut job, but the ABA started, and I thought I could still play.
Larry Brown -
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.
Sammy Davis, Jr. -
What I'm trying to do is save and rescue the country if I can, and I'm doing my best to do it.
Najib Mikati -
The great thing about America is I've never felt like an outsider. I'm just a different piece of the puzzle.
Pardis Sabeti -
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.
K. Eric Drexler
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Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
Xavier Becerra -
To stimulate wildly weak and untrained minds is to play with mighty fires.
W. E. B. Du Bois -
The mullahs are part of the past in Iran, not its future. But change in Iran will come through engagement, not through confrontation.
Zbigniew Brzezinski -
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.
Larry Flynt -
With disadvantages enough to bring him to humility, a Scotsman is one of the proudest things alive.
Oliver Goldsmith -
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.
Macaulay Culkin
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Today is either the beginning of the end, or the end of the beginning. Today we are making history.
Eckhard Pfeiffer -
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.
E. M. Forster -
More and more, cultural groups are cross-pollinating, and we're getting much more interesting art as a result.
Damon Albarn Blur -
To change what you get, you must change who you are.
Vernon Howard -
Leaks are always bad news.
Valerie Plame -
Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent.
Samuel Johnson
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The more I see of the Swedes, the more I am convinced that there is no kinder, simpler, and honester people in the world.
Bayard Taylor -
Nature is not human hearted.
Lao Tzu -
Life has changed enormously, and I hope - I hope more people read good things.
Barbara Bush -
I'm increasingly on the side of thinkers like David Graeber who are talking back to this notion of totality and emphasizing how there are all kinds of moments in our daily lives that break - or at least could break - from the logic of profit and the modes of domination it entails. Zones of freedom, even if it's never pure.
Ben Lerner -
It is not attention that the child is seeking, but love.
Sigmund Freud -
Against great advantages in another, there are no means of defending ourselves except love.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe