Stanislaw Jerzy Lec Quotes
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If I must choose between healthy and tasty, I go for the second: having only one life to waste, it might as well be a pleasurable one.
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As far as my journal, I want to share tour life with my fans.
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We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.
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There ought to be a thoughtful welfare-reform debate that doesn't turn into something that could be called scapegoating.
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Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable.
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I punish myself more than anybody else does if I am stupid about my actions, and I suffer, really suffer.
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Madonna is a creation, so perhaps we should give her and the factory that created her a little credit, but I think that she should quietly disappear now. Poor Madge seems unable to decide whether she wants to look like Marilyn Monroe or Marlene Dietrich.
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Public appearances are a headache. I hold mine down to a minimum.
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Food is not a means toward resolution. It can't cure heartbreak or solve untenable dilemmas.
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A lot of money eliminates a category of worry. If your car breaks down, you're still going to get through the day. But it doesn't make you a happy person if you weren't a happy person before.
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Home is where you are appreciated, safe and protected, creative, and where you are loved - not where you are put in prison.
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The best history is but like the art of Rembrandt; it casts a vivid light on certain selected causes, on those which were best and greatest; it leaves all the rest in shadow and unseen.
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You can't hold up a blog; you can hold up a magazine.
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In order to get what you want, you must first decide what you want. Most people really foul up at this crucial first step because they simply can't see how it's possible to get what they want, so they don't even let themselves want it.
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It takes a lot of people to make a winning team. Everybody's contribution is important.
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Concussions happen. If not on every play, then they happen like every other, every third play, you know.
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The imperturbability of the Church resides in her ability to harmonize the unconditional preservation of eternal truths with an unmatchable elasticity of adjustment to the circumstances and challenges of changing times.
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Psychologists have hitherto failed to realize that imagination is a necessary ingredient of perception itself.
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You who have received so much love, share it with others. Love others the way that God has loved you, with tenderness.
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It had need to beeA wylie mouse that should breed in the cats eare.
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The reason socialism has failed around the world every time it's been tried is because people in socialist countries have looked at the United States and have said if they can have it that good, we can. It's a failed, flawed ideology, but if you ask socialists why it's always failed, it's because the United States has stood in the way.
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So it`s always helped me to have a foundation, an ideal to strive for and goals. It`s hard for me to be disciplined and plan things.
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Once a day, take some 'Beach Time.'
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Never lie when the truth is more profitable.
