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They teach in academies far too many things, and far too much that is useless.
Education
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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To understand one thing well is better than understanding many things by halves.
Skill
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.
Perseverance
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.
Fame
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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Where is the man who has the strength to be true, and to show himself as he is?
Honesty
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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While man's desires and aspirations stir he cannot choose but err.
Desire
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.
Wisdom
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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Conscience is a man's compass.
Conscience
Vincent Van Gogh

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The best way to know God is to love many things.
Love
Vincent Van Gogh

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Acting is nothing more or less than playing. The idea is to humanize life.
Acting and Actors
Jeff Goldblum

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Poor human nature, what horrible crimes have been committed in thy name!
Human Nature
Emma Goldman

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A modest woman, dressed out in all her finery, is the most tremendous object of the whole creation.
Dress
Oliver Goldsmith

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Don't let us make imaginary evils, when you know we have so many real ones to encounter.
Morality
Oliver Goldsmith

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I do not love a man who is zealous for nothing.
Zeal
Oliver Goldsmith

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In all the silent manliness of grief.
Grief
Oliver Goldsmith

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The heart of every man lies open to the shafts of correction if the archer can take proper aim.
Correction
Oliver Goldsmith

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With disadvantages enough to bring him to humility, a Scotsman is one of the proudest things alive.
Nationalities and Nationalism
Oliver Goldsmith

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I hate a man who always says yes to me. When I say no I like a man who also says no.
Hollywood
Samuel Goldwyn

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A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man.
Books - Classics
Edmond and Jules De Goncourt

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Man is a mind betrayed, not served, by his organs.
Body
Edmond and Jules De Goncourt

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Jesus was the first socialist, the first to seek a better life for mankind.
Jesus Christ
Mikhail Gorbachev

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I've been promoted to middle management. I never thought I'd sink so low.
Management
Tim Gould

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Each man must grant himself the emotions that he needs and the morality that suits him.
Individuality
Remy De Gourmont

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Man is the inventor of stupidity.
Stupidity
Remy De Gourmont

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The whole effort of a sincere man is to erect his personal impressions into laws.
Critics and Criticism
Remy De Gourmont

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun