Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

To make an epoch in the world, two conditions are manifestly essential-a good head and a great inheritance.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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• Narrow banks could restart effective intermediation and ensure that consumers and employment-creating small and medium-size enterprises are adequately financed and can contribute to the reactivation of the economy.

  

  Edmund Phelps
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• Cerrone, he's a very good Muay Thai guy, very long.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
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• As long I still have a breath left in me I will dedicate myself fully to China's reform.

  

  Wen Jiabao
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• Form follows beauty.

  

  Oscar Niemeyer
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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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• ... while infants will sync with the human voice regardless of language, they later become habituated to the rhythms of their own language and culture ... ... humans are tied to each other by hierarchies of rhythms that are culture-specific and expressed through language and body movement.

  

  Edward T. Hall
  • Culture
  • Language
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• The reality of split government puts a premium on creativity within the administration. President Obama needs to put the right people in charge of the agencies and then have them push the bounds of administrative power to change policy through those agencies. President Obama has a pretty good track record of this.

  

  Eliot Spitzer
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• Seriously, I thought it would be one of those things that would just come and go.

  

  Darius Rucker Hootie & the Blowfish
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• The courage to soar to great heights is inside all of us.

  

  Kerri Strug
  • Great
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• It is concern that precedes and inspires agendas, and survives when agendas fail, and it causes us to try again, always trying our best, never certain about our own judgment. It is knowing that God's purpose exceeds whatever we can put in an agenda.

  

  John C. Danforth
  • Trying
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• Three Rules of Work: Out of clutter find simplicity. From discord find harmony. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.

  

  Albert Einstein
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  • Opportunity
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• a man who has decided upon self-destruction is far removed from mundane affairs, and to sit down and write his will would be, at that moment, an act just as absurd as winding up one’s watch, since together with the man, the whole world is destroyed; the last letter is instantly reduced to dust and, with it, all the postmen; and like smoke, vanishes the estate bequeathed to a nonexistent progeny.

  

  Vladimir Nabokov
  • World
  • Men
  • Writing

• The more you work in this business as a comedian, the closer you get to just being yourself onstage, on camera, the more well received you are.

  

  Nikki Glaser
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• A person who can, within a year, solve x2 - 92y2 = 1 is a mathematician.

  

  Brahmagupta
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• The struggle to be considered a grown-up begins, I believe, shortly after birth.

  

  Wendy Wasserstein
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• God is looking for people to use, and if you can get usable, he will wear you out. The most dangerous prayer you can pray is this: 'Use me.'

  

  Rick Warren
  • People
  • Prayer
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• To make an epoch in the world, two conditions are manifestly essential-a good head and a great inheritance.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Conditions
  • Inheritance
  • Epoch