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    Or Mephistopheles—in Goethe's Faust 'Was soil uns denn das ew'ge Schaffen!†  (source)
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    Goethe.†  (source)
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    Had the apprentice been reading the complete works of Goethe or any other such luminary, that was what would have sat in front of them.†  (source)
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    Beginning with the Bible, the citations proceeded right through the works of the Greeks and Romans onto the likes of Shakespeare, Milton, and Goethe.†  (source)
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    This pattern holds from the Elizabethan Christopher Marlowe's Dr. Faustus through the nineteenth-century Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust to the twentieth century's Stephen Vincent Benet's "The Devil and Daniel Webster" and Damn Yankees.†  (source)
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    When Goethe as a young student visited the city, he still found sad ruins 'Von der Kuppel der Frauenkirche sah ich these leidigen Trimmer zwischen die schone stddtische Ordnung hineingesat; da rihmte mir der Kiister die Kunst des Baumeisters, welcher Kirche und Kuppel auf einen so uneriinschten Fall schon eingeyichtet und bombenfest erbaut hatte.†  (source)
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    Mr. President, Mrs. Clinton, members of Congress, Ambassador Holbrooke, Excellencies, friends: Fifty-four years ago to the day, a young Jewish boy from a small town in the Carpathian Mountains woke up, not far from Goethe's beloved Weimar, in a place of eternal infamy called Buchenwald.†  (source)
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    No doubt she became tired of spending the evenings alone, while he was off listening to phantom trumpets, and conversing with the spirits of Goethe and Shakespeare.†  (source)
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    After three weeks it was no longer incomprehensible to us that a braided postman should have more authority over us than had formerly our parents, our teachers, and the whole gamut of culture from Plato to Goethe.†  (source)
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    I saw Goethe's house, Schiller's statue, and Dannecker's famous 'Ariadne.'†  (source)
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    Immediately there was a chorus: 'Idealism, mysticism, Goethe's Naturphilosophie, neo-Schellingism.'†  (source)
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    Do you know what Goethe said about our friend Copernicus?†  (source)
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    The room usually fills when Cedric is around and, soon, Ira Volker is here, along with Florian Keil, his soft-spoken German roommate whose father runs a Boston arm of the Goethe Institute, the German government's cultural ministry abroad.†  (source)
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