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Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.


Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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KAREN SZULCZEWSKI The person with whom they may be interacting may not be who they say they are.
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DIANE BOYER Risks may make you win, or they will make you learn. Either of the benefits is worth daring for.
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR People involved in the day-to-day, they often miss turning points. They get beaten down after so man...
DONNA JAEGERS We will not be beaten. But we may be shamed and embarrassed on a needlessly long road to victory.
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SHANE J VAN DER VELDE Pioneers may be picturesque figures, but they are often rather lonely ones.
NANCY ASTOR Pioneers may be picturesque figures, but they are often rather lonely ones.
NANCY ASTOR THE VISCOUNTESS ASTOR While people may be impressed by your achievements, they are they may be more INSPIRED by WHY you di...
LORRIN L. LEE The studios are ultimately going to decide, ... It appears they don't want to bet on a particular fo...
MICHAEL GARTENBERG They may not think they get all the right equipment all the time, or that they get all the support o...
BILL MCCOLLUM They come from broken homes. They may have fetal alcohol syndrome. They may have a learning disabili...
JUDI MERRITT We elect our Presidents, be they Republican or Democrat, then start daring 'em to make good.
WILL ROGERS If you start in the earliest stages when a tree is just being impacted, they may be effective.
DAN HERMS More kids mean a lot of competition. Kids who may not start one game might start the next game.
JAMES APICELLI Winning may not be everything, but losing has little to recommend it.
SENATOR DIANNE FEINSTEIN Winning may not be everything, but losing has little to recommend it.
DIANNE FEINSTEIN Ein Teil von jener Kraft, die stets das Böse will und stets das Gute schafft.

-Goethe-
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MAE WEST Cultivate your curves--they may be dangerous but they won't be avoided.
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MATT LOVALLO Although the ink may be dry, the ideas are still fresh.
ANTHONY T.HINCKS They played hard. They were real aggressive on defense and you could tell that they're in a nice zon...
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TOM WATSON Your parents are the parents you know best. Your brother and sister, if you have them, are the broth...
JAMES SALTER Those who lie and cheat, but do not believe what they are doing to be wrong, may be living according...
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DELL LEONARD Statues and pictures and verse may be grand, But they are not the Life for which they stand.
JAMES THOMSON The people may be made to follow a path of action, but they may not be made to understand it.
CONFUCIUS We're paying close attention because of the First Amendment implications and [we] may be prepared to...
CAROLINE FREDRICKSON They may turn out to be a great disappointment, or perhaps they may be full of enchanting surprises.
MARY WESLEY You may see word finding difficulties or problems with conversation abilities so they start withdraw...
JULIE FEIL It's good to get a win over them, especially since they have beaten us pretty handily the last two t...
BARTON BICKERTON Good ideas may not want to be free, but they do want to connect, fuse, recombine. They want to reinv...
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ALEX STEEN Wealth and rank are what people desire, but unless they are obtained in the right way they may not b...
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PHIL NIEKRO But then, all of the sudden, we start winning when we start winning those other things; they kind of...
ATHLETICS DIRECTOR SCOTT RADUKA A child's (or an adult's) nervous system may detect danger or a threat to life when the child enters...
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HANK CHARDOS Cultivate your curves - they may be dangerous but they won't be avoided.
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GARY SHEPHERD The directors may give them some notes — they may ask an actor to try something a different way — ...
BETSY HEAD Though men may be deep, mentally they are slow.
CAMILLE PAGLIA Nice guys may finish last, but in a courtroom they are king.
KENNETH EADE It may have been one wave in one heat but by him winning he gained 178 points on me and if I'd won I...
KELLY SLATER If they don't have a plan, it may be a sign of good intentions, but bad management. It may not be ev...
BENNETT WEINER Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior
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ELIZABETH ALRAUNE We're concerned for borrowers because they may not fully understand what may happen. In three or fiv...
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SAM MCCORKLE They live that they may eat, but he himself [Socrates] eats that he may live.
MATTHEW ARNOLD Chances are, in five years they may not exist at all, or it may be something else, but right now it'...
HAL VOGEL There's so much truth about frustration and desperation. These two characters are so beaten down, bu...
TRACY FRANKLIN Merrill may be more of a tortoise, but they'll start to catch up.
DOUGLAS ALTABEF Great men may die, but there ideas won't.
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JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE The mortal race is far too weak not to grow dizzy on unwonted brights. [Ger., Das sterbliche Gesc...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Water its living strength first shows, When obstacles its course oppose.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Where there are no women there are no good manners
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE He who does not feel his friends to be the world to him, does not deserve that the world should hear...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE The universal subjugator, the commonplace. [Ger., Was uns alle bandigt, das Gemeine.]
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what we want most for what we want in the mome...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Everyone hears only what he understands.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult t...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Science and art belong to the whole world, and before them vanish the barriers of nationality. [G...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE The sagacious reader who is capable of reading between these lines what does not stand written in t...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Correction does much, but encouragement does more.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE The society of women is the element of good manners.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE A man's manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Whatever you think you can do or believe you can do, begin it. Action has magic, grace and power in ...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Those who know nothing of foreign languages, knows nothing of their own.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Be generous with kindly words, especially about those who are absent.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Loving is a feeling that brings both joy and pain to my heart. Joy from being with you, being filled...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE If you start to think about your physical or moral condition, you usually find that you are sick.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unp...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Take care of your body with steadfast fidelity. The soul must see through these eyes alone, and if...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Hatred is active, and envy passive dislike; there is but one step from envy to hate.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Each one sees what he carries in his heart
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE A wounded heart can with difficulty be cured. [Ger., Doch ein gekranktes Herz erholt sich schwer.]
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE For to give is the business of the rich. [Lat., Denn Geben ist Sache des Reichen.]
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE When I err every one can see it, but not when I lie. [Ger., Wenn ich irre kann es jeder bemerken; ...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE In just two days, tomorrow will be yesterday
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.
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