Stanislaw Jerzy Lec Quotes
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You may dislike what somebody else has said; that is perfectly valid. You may not agree with what somebody else has said. But saying something cannot possibly amount to sedition.
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When a man keeps beating me to the draw mentally, he begins to get glamorous.
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We have a tendency to sugar coat the Civil Rights movement by showing arm in arm and everyone singing 'Kumbaya'. We don't really always show the resistance from the government, the resistance from the status quo, from the majority to silence the movement.
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I thought that you had stood up for the free will & rights of humans in this town.” “Depends on the human,” Claire said. “As far as I know, Hitler had a heartbeat, and I wouldn’t vote him to be in charge.
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I like Americans. They always make an effort when they meet you. They want to be liked and to like you; it is always easy to be with them.
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As the family goes, so go the children.
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It's absolutely fatal to your writing to think about how your work will be received. It's a betrayal of whatever talent you have.
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The most valuable thing the Psalms do for me is to express the same delight in God which made David dance.
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Sophocles said he drew men as they ought to be, and Euripides as they were.
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My humanity is a constant self-overcoming.
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...from the same principles, I now demonstrate the frame of the System of the World.
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We think of it as an extension of existing content efforts we have now. We didn't have a general way for people to push information to us that they didn't think was being represented in our search results.
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I would always reserve a special place in my heart for Pittsburgh.
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Too many people have refused to begin running or have quickly dropped out of running programs because they 'have no talent for it.' Ridiculous. Talent has nothing to do with it. The only thing that matters is mental discipline.
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Strict justice would demand total confiscation of your property, personal imprisonment and fines.
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The only thing I oppose is persecuting of Eastern Orthodox priests and temples.
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The invectives against capital in the hands of those who have it are double-faced, and when turned about are nothing but demands for capital in the hands of those who have it not, in order that they may do with it just what those who have it now are doing with it.
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It seems to me them that sees an evil thing unfold and don't do nothin' to prevent it, are just as bad as them that does the evil.
