Stanislaw Jerzy Lec Quotes
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The Hindu marriage may be described as the union of two families. In this union, there is no room for petty ambitions and personal ego-trips. What is involved is love for the entire family that one is marrying into.
Dada Vaswani
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I feel that my work is not in vain, that it does have a place in society, even though it may not be considered that it has a place in society - it doesn't matter.
Yoko Ono
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Human kindness is like a defective tap, the first gush may be impressive but the stream soon dries up.
P. D. James
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I believe in God and not religion, because I believe religion is the double cross. Because I've been double crossed by three religions, so I think I can safely say that religion - there is maybe something wrong with religion. Every temple that's put up may not be a holy one, so watch out.
Ja Rule
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You want to do a few things really well because you want to come out with a product that is fully baked, even though it may be lacking in a few features or whatever, rather than the one that's all-achieving but not doing anything too well.
Ram Shriram
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I'm not going to grouse and complain when there's nothing I can do about it. Once you've broken up with somebody, arguing with them is not going to bring them back. You may want to stop their Twitter account or call them up late at night, but they made the decision to leave.
Larry Wilmore
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Verjuice may not be the easiest thing in the world to find, but you should be able to track some down in good delis and online.
Yotam Ottolenghi
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It seems we will continue to have problems with this classification and it may be because it comes under the heading of creation rather than preservation.
Walter Lang
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Shakspeare never has six lines together without a fault. Perhaps you may find seven: but this does not refute my general assertion.
Samuel Johnson
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'Dear Reader,' New York Review of Books, May 21, 2015
C. K. Williams
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In dealing with those who share his bed, the enlightened ruler may enjoy their beauty but should not listen to their special pleas...
Han Fei
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Indeed, if what you do offends me but does not harm me otherwise, there should be a very high bar for prohibiting your act. After all, any ban, and certainly any vigilante acts to enforce it, may offend you as much, or more, than the offence to me. Excessive political correctness stifles progress as much as excessive license and disrespect.
Raghuram Rajan
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People may have said that without symptoms, you can't transmit Ebola. I'm not sure about that being 100 percent true. There's a lot of variation with viruses.
Bruce Beutler
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What other people think of me is none of my business.
Gary Oldman
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It is also possible for a woman to go back to a man’s room, tell him she doesn’t want to have intercourse, mean it, start kissing, have intercourse, and then wish she hadn’t in the morning. How? Kissing is like eating potato chips. Before we know it, we’ve gone further than we said we would.
Warren Farrell
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The German soldiers, that is, the workers and peasants, will in the majority of cases have far more sympathy for the vanquished peoples than for their own ruling caste. The necessity to act at every step in the capacity of 'pacifiers' and oppressors will swiftly disintegrate the armies of occupation, infecting them with a revolutionary spirit.
Leon Trotsky
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Do not turn your back on anyone. You may be painted on one side only.
Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
