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Science arose from poetry... when times change the two can meet again on a higher level as friends.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Age: 82 †
Born: 1749
Born: August 22
Died: 1832
Died: March 22
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If one doesn't know one's own country, one doesn't have standards for foreign countries.
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So long as you live and work, you will be misunderstood to that you must resign yourself once and for all. Be silent!
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Upon the creatures we have made, we are, ourselves, at last, dependent.
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