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Why look for conspiracy when stupidity can explain so much
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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He who has a task to perform must know how to take sides, or he is quite unworthy of it.
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Tolerance should really be only a temporary attitude it must lead to recognition. To tolerate means to offend.
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I believe in God and in nature and in the triumph of good over evil.
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Old age is never honored among us, but only indulged, as childhood is and old men lose one of the most precious rights of man,--that of being judged by their peers.
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All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green.
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The finished man, you know, is difficult to please a growing mind will ever show you gratitude. --Faust 1, lines 182-3
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