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Give me the benefit of your convictions, if you have any but keep your doubts to yourself, for I have enough of my own.

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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We will burn that bridge when we come to it.
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Every bird has its decoy, and every man is led and misled in his own peculiar way.
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I am very anxious to please the public, particularly as it lives and lets live.
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I can promise to be upright, but not to be without bias. [Ger., Aufrichtig zu sein kann ich versprechen unparteiisch zu sein aber nicht.]
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Everyone holds his fortune in his own hands, like a sculptor the raw material he will fashion into a figure. But it's the same with that type of artistic activity as with all others: We are merely born with the capability to do it. The Skill to mold the material into what we want must be learned and attentively cultivated.
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