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Goethe tells us in his greatest poem that Faust lost the liberty of his soul when he said to the passing moment, 'Stay, thou art…

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Our attitude towards immigration reflects our faith in the American ideal. We have always believed it possible for men and women who…
We in Government have begun to recognize the critical work which must be done at all levels-local, State and Federal-in ending the…
...if we want to meet the obligations of our civilization and our culture which are to create communities for our children that…
Industrial agriculture now accounts for over half of America's water pollution.
Each time a man stands up for an ideal or acts to improve the lot of others or strikes out against injustice,…
The future does not belong to those who are content with today, apathetic toward common problems and their fellow man alike, timid…
Always forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
This much is clear: violence breeds violence, repression brings retaliation, and only a cleansing of our whole society can remove this sickness…
If freedom makes social progress possible, so social progress strengthens and enlarges freedom. The two are inseparable partners in the great adventure…
At the heart of western freedom and democracy is the belief that the individual man ... is the touchstone of value, and…
What we need in the United States is not division; what we need in the United States is not hatred; what we…
...the gross national product does not allow for the health of our children, the quality of their education or the joy of…

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Sometimes when reading Goethe I have the paralyzing suspicion that he is trying to be funny. — Guy Davenport
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The sun had, in the meanwhile, sunk behind the Ettersberg. We felt in the wood the chill of the evening, and drove… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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I never dreamed of being Shakespeare or Goethe, and I never expected to hold the great mirror of truth up before the… — Peter Altenberg
India was China's teacher in religion and imaginative literature, and the world's teacher in trignometry, quandratic equations, grammar, phonetics, Arabian Nights, animal… — Lin Yutang
The writing of histories - as Goethe once noted - is one way of getting rid of the weight of the past....… — Benedetto Croce
Science does not know its debt to imagination. Goethe did not believe that a great naturalist could exist without this faculty. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
My understanding – of course, I’m not a philosopher or a scientist – of an aspect of Goethe’s theory of color is… — Alex Webb
When they learn of Shakespeare and Goethe, we must teach them of Pushkin and Dumas. . . . Whatever the white man… — Mary McLeod Bethune
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It is a shallow criticism that would define poetry as confined to literary productions in rhyme and meter rhythm. The written poem… — John Ruskin

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