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 never pulled a loaded pistol on anybody, but it got around that I did. It got turned into lore. It's a myth. There's so much bad gun stuff.
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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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Keep the fire of your testimony of the restored gospel and your witness of our Redeemer burning so brightly that our children can warm their hands by the fire of your faith.
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A government cannot be expected to allow independence to its central bank unless that bank is also accountable to it and to the wider public. That is, the central bank must be able to be judged on whether or not it has achieved its agreed objective.
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Our ability to reach unity in diversity will be the beauty and the test of our civilization.
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I'd love to do some bedtime stories for kids or that kind of thing. But with the demands of the shooting schedule and balancing the demands of being a single mother, it's a wonder you can squeeze in anything.
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Whatever happens to seed affects the web of life.
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It's the priests who have demands, not the gods.
