Stanislaw Jerzy Lec Quotes
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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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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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Call it stubborn, call it ignorant, call it what you want, but I don't think I have to join a particular faith or culture or creed or religion just to fit in, since I was part of the clique since it's inception.
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We'd also have to infiltrate the army too, because they are well trained to kill us all.
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Is nature a giant cat? If so, who strokes its back?
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I have a theory that most people in Hollywood are from Texas.
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A weaver who has to direct and to interweave a great many little threads has no time to philosophize about it, but rather he is so absorbed in his work that he doesn't think but acts, and he feels how things must go more than he can explain it.
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So on the demand side for energy, there have been a variety of policies that globally have been way over $50 billion a year of tax credits, raising the price of electricity through things like renewable portfolio standards, so the total amount of money that's gone into sending a price signal to push up demand versus what would happen without it has been gigantic.
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It's the priests who have demands, not the gods.
