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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The pen is the language of the soul; as the concepts that in it are generated, such will be its writings.
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We live in a day when the adversary stresses on every hand the philosophy of instant gratification. We seem to demand instant everything, including instant solutions to our problems. . .It was meant to be that life would be a challenge. To suffer some anxiety, some depression, some disappointment, even some failure is normal.
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You can't expect drive and compassion from everyone who enters your life, but you have to demand it of the people you are creating with.
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Rising inequality is toxic to growth. High levels of inequality exclude people - both as innovators and customers - diminishing both innovation and demand.
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When the dog looks at you, the dog is not thinking what kind of a person you are. The dog is not judging you.
