Stanislaw Jerzy Lec Quotes
Never saw the branch you are sittin on, unless they are trying to hang you from it.
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There is no short cut to truth, no way to gain a knowledge of the universe except through the gateway of scientific method.
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Life and death live and die in exactly the same spot, the body. It is from there that both babies and cancers are born.
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We were due for this win. This team knew we needed a win, and every player needed to do something to contribute to the win.
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In every combustion there is disengagement of the matter of fire or of light. A body can burn only in pure air [oxygen]. There is no destruction or decomposition of pure air and the increase in weight of the body burnt is exactly equal to the weight of air destroyed or decomposed. The body burnt changes into an acid by addition of the substance that increases its weight. Pure air is a compound of the matter of fire or of light with a base. In combustion the burning body removes the base, which it attracts more strongly than does the matter of heat, which appears as flame, heat and light.
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I would like to continue acting. I tell people I can't go back to real life. I have to see how far I can go with it. I am serious about it, and I believe that it's my calling. I think it's what my life's path is. It's what God has given me. It's what I was born to do. And so I must do it.
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It broke the spell. It's not that I stopped being happy. I was still inexplicably, utterly happy. But suddenly the happiness had implications.
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Whenever I write anything that sets up controversy its meaning is distorted almost instantly. Even the editorial writers of newspapers seem to be unable to understand the plainest sentence.
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If you want to be obsessed to be your best, you must get ride of the negative things that are weighing you down.
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Having books published is very destructive to writing.
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The Constitution favors no racial group - no political or social group.
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My faith runs so very much faster than my reason that I can challenge the whole world and say, 'God is, was and ever shall be'.
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In vowing ourselves to one another, we are entitled to stand before the Almighty and ask Him for His grace and His blessing.
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Anon out of the earth a fabric huge Rose, like an exhalation.
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Teach principles not formulas.
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I didn't like some of the movies that were coming into me.
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The first ten amendments were proposed and adopted largely because of fear that Government might unduly interfere with prized individual liberties. The people wanted and demanded a Bill of Rights written into their Constitution. The amendments embodying the Bill of Rights were intended to curb all branches of the Federal Government in the fields touched by the amendments-Legislative, Executive, and Judicial.
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Roger [Corman] didn't actually hire me, though. I was hired by AIP [American International Pictures], the studio that made the picture, which was Sam Arkoff and Jim Nicholson. It was a great learning experience for me, because not only did I work on the script, but they hired me back to go on location when they were making the movie, to write new scenes and so forth.
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Never saw the branch you are sittin on, unless they are trying to hang you from it.
