Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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One of the greatest boons that can ever come to a human being is to be born on a farm and reared in the country. Self-reliance and grit are oftenest country-bred.
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I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.
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The secrets of slavery are concealed like those of the Inquisition.
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When I was little, I got into a little accident, and it gave me congenital glaucoma in both of my eyes.
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The win-win situation is the basis for America's entire business world. Instead of wasting our time attempting to defeat each other, let's find a way that will make both of us gain and go home satisfied. In Israel, it doesn't work because the only meaning of victory is seeing your rival's body lying trampled on the floor.
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A smart phone essentially creates a dossier of your travels, and consumers have no control over who will eventually see that information.
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Our country is in deep trouble. To talk and re-litigate in 1998, or even what Mitt Romney said or didn't say in 1994 or 2002, I don't think most people really care.
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Don't take 'no' for an answer.
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Perhaps the truest axiom in baseball is that the toughest thing to do is repeat.
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I'm constantly hydrating my hair.
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Oh, yes; you Virginians shed barrels of perspiration while standing off at a distance and superintending the work your slaves do for you. It is different with us. Here it is every fellow for himself, or he doesn't get there.
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I would hate to be on a plane every day.
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Religion must completely encircle the spirit of ethical man like his element, and this luminous chaos of divine thoughts and feelings is called enthusiasm.
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All the artists out there, I ask you and beg you: Take over your ship. It's your career. It's your life.
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Climbing to the top demands strength, whether it is to the top of Mount Everest or to the top of your career.
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I've had Republicans come to me and say, 'Tell me how I should talk to young people!' as if it's some foreign language or something.
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I don't really care what other people see me as. I seriously don't. I've always worried about what my opinion of myself is. And I've always thought that it carries most weight. So I don't care what other people's opinion of me is or how they view whatever I've said or done.
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We need to download scientific journals and upload them to file-sharing networks.
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If people should ever start to do only what is necessary millions would die of hunger.
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The miserable have no other medicine But only hope.
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A long period of distress and anarchy, in which empire, and arts, and riches, had migrated from the banks of the Tiber, was incapable of restoring or adorning the city; and, as all that is human must retrograde if it do not advance, every successive age must have hastened the ruin of the works of antiquity.
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Poets are seen as the caretakers of language, so working with words no matter what the form is what we do.
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The rabble also vent their rage in words.
