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I've always admired Joey as a skater. But I admire him even more as a person.


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JOHANN VON GOETHE People are so constituted that everybody would rather undertake what they see others do, whether the...
JOHANN VON GOETHE The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.
JOHANN VON GOETHE The really unhappy person is the one who leaves undone what they can do, and starts doing what they ...
JOHANN VON GOETHE He is dead in this world who has no belief in another.
JOHANN VON GOETHE We are so constituted that we believe the most incredible things; and, once they are engraved upon t...
JOHANN VON GOETHE If you must tell me your opinions, tell me what you believe in. I have plenty of doubts of my own.
JOHANN VON GOETHE Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest.
JOHANN VON GOETHE Beauty is a primeval phenomenon, which itself never makes its appearance, but the reflection of whic...
JOHANN VON GOETHE Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us for...
JOHANN VON GOETHE Tear man out of his outward circumstances; and what he then is; that only is he.
JOHANN G. SEUME Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy canno...
JOHANN VON GOETHE Wealth lost is something lost, honor lost is something lost: Courage lost all is lost.
JOHANN VON GOETHE Rest not. Life is sweeping by; go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behin...
JOHANN VON GOETHE The decline in literature indicates a decline in the nation. The two keep pace in their downward ten...
JOHANN VON GOETHE Don't dissipate your powers; strive to concentrate them. Genius thinks it can do whatever it sees ot...
JOHANN VON GOETHE No wise combatant underestimates their antagonist.
JOHANN VON GOETHE No one would talk much in society if they knew how often they misunderstood others.
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