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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I think I did in the sense that there's a whole generation coming up behind us that was engaged, inspired, worked for change during the course of my presidency, saw what was possible. And that generation, it's coming.
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I don't believe in religion. I believe the example of Christ. I believe in the example of a perfect human being that if you can live for other people away from yourself you will be happy. If you live for yourself you will be unhappy and then you will not be able to sleep or do anything else... finally. I think insofar, and I really believe this, insofar as people do live with the other fellow [God] in mind, they have to be happy you know? Because it raises you up.
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But say, my lord, it were not regist'red, Methinks the truth should live from age to age, As 'twere retailed to all posterity, Even to the general all-ending day.
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It is more blessed to give than to receive, but then it is also more blessed to be able to do without than to have to have.
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Never saw the branch you are sittin on, unless they are trying to hang you from it.
