Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.
Langston Hughes
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It may be a question whether machinery does not encumber; whether we have not lost by refinement some energy, by a Christianity entrenched in establishments and forms, some vigor of wild virtue. For every Stoic was a Stoic; but in Christendom where is the Christian?
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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As she stumbled forward she cried out in her mind, which was as dark, as shaken as the subterranean vault, 'Forgive me. O my Masters, O unnamed ones, most ancient ones, forgive me, forgive me!'There was no answer. There had never been an answer.
Ursula K. Le Guin
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Science is what we know, and philosophy is what we don't know.
Bertrand Russell
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Cast in this unlikely roleIll-equipped to actWith insufficient tactOne must put up barriersTo keep oneself intact - Limelight (1981)
Neil Peart
Rush
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There are two things which make it impossible to believe that this world is the successful work of an all-wise, all-good, and, at the same time, all-powerful Being; firstly, the misery which abounds in it everywhere; and secondly, the obvious imperfection of its highest product, man, who is a burlesque of what he should be.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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Community, responsibility, flexibility, tenacity - these are all things that I imbue my characters with. They are basically good, nonjudgmental people who succeed at the end of the day, sometimes in spite of themselves.
Janet Evanovich
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...poking a lump of red Jello that jiggles outrageously, like a breast I once knew.
Sara Gruen
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Evil news fly faster still than good.
Thomas Kyd
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I was inspired to do anything I could to get out of what I was doing... today, I'm motivated to pay the bills.
Terry Zwigoff
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What we like about women is sensuality, wildness, hormones. Women who make a song and dance about their intuition.
Yasmina Reza
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You shall abstain, shall abstain. That is the eternal song.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe