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Influence Quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Mathematics can remove no prejudices and soften no obduracy. It has no influence in sweetening the bitter strife of parties, and in the moral world…
- He who wishes to exert a useful influence must be careful to insult nothing. Let him not be troubled by what seems absurd, but concentrate…
- However often we turn to it [the Koran] at first disgusting us each time afresh, it soon attracts, astounds, and in the end enforces our…
- Men's prejudices rest upon their character for the time being and cannot be overcome, as being part and parcel of themselves. Neither evidence nor common…
- Every great idea exerts, on first appearing, a tyrannical influence: Hence, the advantages it brings are turned all too soon into disadvantages.
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- Morals are built on religious faith. Virtue is built on morality and influences a culture. — Michele Bachmann
- My first influence obviously was Picasso. — David Bailey
- As a great man's influence never ends, so also there is not definite finality, no end, to a great survey; it runs… — Cleveland Abbe
- A husband who submits to his wife's yoke is justly held an object of ridicule. A woman's influence ought to be entirely… — Honore de Balzac
- I guess subconsciously that all the great people you work with have an influence on you. — Eric Bana
- A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops. — Henry Adams
- The difference is slight, to the influence of an author, whether he is read by five hundred readers, or by five hundred… — Henry Adams
- I'll put it frankly - Britain has more influence in China than Norway or Switzerland, with all respect for the other countries. — Jose Manuel Barroso
- If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader. — John Quincy Adams
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