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The man who occupies the first place seldom plays the principal part. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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There is nothing insignificant in the world. It all depends on the point of view. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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If I were still twenty years old, I would really move to America. ↗

— Theo Van Gogh

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He carried his childhood like a hurt warm bird held to his middle-aged breast. ↗

— Herbert Gold

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It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to, the feeling for the things themselves, for reality is more important than the feeling for pictures. ↗

— Vincent Van Gogh

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The experience of ages has shown that a man who works on the land is purer, nobler, higher, and more moral... Agriculture should be at the basis of everything. That's my idea. ↗

— Nikolai Gogol

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They're thinking of turning the peasant into an educated man. Why, first of all they should make him a good and prosperous farmer and then he'll learn all that is necessary for him to know. ↗

— Nikolai Gogol

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Diverting the internal traffic between the Writer as Angel of Light and the Writer as Hustler is that scribbling child in a grown-up body wondering if anybody is listening. ↗

— Herbert Gold

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Gold's was the first bodybuilding gym made for bodybuilders. ↗

— Joe Gold

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I couldn't pronounce Arnold Schwarzenegger, so I called him Balloon Belly. ↗

— Joe Gold

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