Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
Piety is not an end but a means to attain by the greatest peace of mind the highest degree of culture.
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I get depressed at airports.
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He that will enjoy the brightness of sunshine, must quit the coolness of the shade.
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I was never conscious that I was becoming an icon or I'm not an icon, because my family, my kids, my husband keep me down-to-earth.
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Faith and prayer are the vitamins of the soul; man cannot live in health without them.
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My wife Mary and I have been married for forty-seven years and not once have we had an argument serious enough to consider divorce; murder, yes, but divorce, never.
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I'm to a point now where you want to play for your fans and all that, but I'm playing for the guys in that huddle. I'm playing for the guys in that locker room.
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There are people who are very resourceful, at being remorseful, and who apparently feel that the best way to make friends is to do something terrible and then make amends.
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China - if you think about what is the character of China, it's enormous scale. It's bigness.
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It is eerie being all but alone in Westminster Abbey. Without the tourists, there are only the dead, many of them kings and queens. They speak powerfully and put my thoughts into vivid perspective.
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I'm stronger and sassier as a redhead.
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It's fun being paid to read stuff and air your opinion about it - pretty much a dream job for a writer.
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I'd never rule anything out, to be honest with you, whether it be the small of volunteer status for a community organization or national politics, who knows?
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In a way, architecture is about communication. That's an aspect of the discipline that is somewhat lacking, and there's definitely room for more progression into that area. I suppose that gives me a bit of a different edge. I'm also very, very used to doing a lot of exhaustive research and finding interesting information from different sources.
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The problem is that the economy isn't growing fast enough to accommodate the level of spending produced through the democratic process.
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If you do an autopsy on an 85-year-old who died of a stroke, you will find five other things that person was about to die from.
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I tried to bake a cake for my mother's birthday - it took me four hours. It was terrible, and I cried for three days.
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But, I've always loved John Mayer and I think T-Pain is brilliant.
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The worst of doing one's duty was that it apparently unfitted one for doing anything else.
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This life and this job and this position that I'm put in, it forces you to grow up quick. I definitely got dropped in the deep end.
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The working examples of important new systems seem to have come either from entrepreneurial efforts (Visicalc is a good example) or from large companies, like Bell Labs and most especially Xerox, that were much involved with computers and could afford research into them, but did not regard them as their primary business.
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There exists, if I am not mistaken, an entire world which is the totality of mathematical truths, to which we have access only with our mind, just as a world of physical reality exists, the one like the other independent of ourselves, both of divine creation.
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Indeed, the hype around 'Watchmen' is its curse. If you want to enjoy the comic for what it is, ignore the attributions of literariness and the novelistic pretensions with which some critics have imbued it. This isn't high culture, and it doesn't pretend to be. It's good, juicy pulp fiction with a little nuclear apocalypse thrown in.
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The diversity of the phenomena of nature is so great, and the treasures hidden in the heavens so rich, precisely in order that the human mind shall never be lacking in fresh nourishment.
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Piety is not an end but a means to attain by the greatest peace of mind the highest degree of culture.
