Stanislaw Jerzy Lec Quotes
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It's true that I run a multi-national group but I have no interests in India. So please tell me, what should my identity be?
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I have been to Canada several times. It was autumn when I visited Vancouver, and I will always remember the colour of the trees in British Columbia were stunning.
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I like to practise. With every new piece, you make mistakes and you learn. So it's important to get on and have another go.
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For a man of my generation, our century has been a long intellectual and political struggle in favor of freedom.
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The idea that computers can ever replace teachers and schools reveals a deep lack of understanding about the role leadership plays in student success.
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Turkey, a powerful and reliable ally of the U.S. through the Cold War, appears to be coming unmoored from Europe and the West and is becoming increasingly sectarian, autocratic, and nationalistic.
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I like Modest Mouse. I'm our biggest fan. And enemy. I won't waste people's time by putting out a Modest Mouse record just because. That's fair, right?
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Usually, historical revelations come from days of legwork, ploughing through piles of letters and papers in archives or even private homes, looking for the telling phrase or letter that someone else has missed.
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As more ad spending shifts online, the ability to have expertise and to innovate quickly will become critical.
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Drama starts where logic ends.
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Some smart man once said that on the most exalted throne in the world, we are seated on nothing but our own arse.
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The first responsibility of the Muslim is as teacher. That is his job, to teach. His first school, his first classroom is within the household. His first student is himself. He masters himself and then he begins to convey the knowledge that he has acquired to the family. The people who are closest to him.
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To invent an airplane is nothing. To build one is something. But to fly is everything.
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I have to live up to the love I am receiving.
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There was never an angry man that thought his anger unjust.
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If I still lived in Russia, I'd be dead... or a really effective oligarch.
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I have had bullets flying at concerts, but I don't want to talk about that.
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The ability to cultivate friends is a powerful aid to success. It is capital which will stand by one when panics come, when banks fail, when business concerns go to the wall.
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I stay true to myself and my style, and I am always pushing myself to be aware of that and be original.
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Judaism is interesting in that there is something there that I think you just can't understand if you're not a Jew - it moves into a realm of true mystery.
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I would think we have a trajectory of failure on the Republicans' part. When you think about how they managed to make John Kerry look bad during the last election for actually serving in Vietnam, and testifying in Congress after he'd gotten medals, and said that he didn't believe in them or that he didn't believe in the war and that it should stop . . . That they could turn that in negative when their guy, George W. Bush, never even went to Vietnam.
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I was always brought up to have a cup of tea at halfway up a rock face.
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I've fallen in love with my horse. It's a safer bet. We all know from my illustrious past that I should be sticking to men with four legs.
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He who wants to get to the source must swim against the current.
