Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
The poet should seize the Particular, and he should, if there be anything sound in it, thus represent the Universal.
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I say: The time has come for my courageous and proud people, after decades of displacement and colonial occupation and ceaseless suffering, to live like other peoples of the earth, free in a sovereign and independent homeland.
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I really appreciate family. I really can't imagine life without them!
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Scotland is the best place in the whole world.
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To my child's eyes, which had seen nothing else, Shanghai was a waking dream where everything I could imagine had already been taken to its extreme.
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There always have been funny women.
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There is properly no history; only biography.
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Who'd ever have thought that I'd be the face or the body of any kind of exercise at all.
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Trying to force something is the best way to stop it happening.
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I want to go Africa. I want to go to China. There are some places I want to go not to work, but to really explore and to see for my own education.
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The theater is too deep for me. I prefer bicycling.
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But it turns out its not a big deal. The imports help, but not significantly.
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That obviously includes France, Germany, and Italy, who are offering forces as part of this coalition and all the other member states as well.
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I read books that say if you want to keep sex hot you tell a person what you want. How do you tell 'em you want somebody else?
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[I want to be] Something that really touched you - and as far as image and change goes, I just really want a lot of people to respect my music and treat me... [as] inspiration.
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In regard to the great mass of men, anything that breaks the realm of fear is not salutary, but dangerous; because it takes off one of the hoops that hold the barrel together in which the evil spirits are confined.
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If our souls be immortal, this makes amends for the frailties of life and the sufferings of this state.
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I've always stuck with Gibsons. I've had Guilds and Fenders, too, but I always wind up going back to Gibsons.
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Here is this three-pound mass of jelly you can hold in the palm of your hand, and it can contemplate the vastness of interstellar space. It can contemplate the meaning of infinity and it can contemplate itself contemplating on the meaning of infinity.
