Stanislaw Jerzy Lec Quotes
When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet.
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The second I met Zac, I thought he was a really cool guy. It's hard not to have chemistry with someone who is so attractive.
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All a writer wants is to be read, and people are so flattering and lovely. I mean, there are witches out there as well. But most are so kind.
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If you get 10,000 guys to put their ideal woman into a computer, it still comes out looking like Angelina Jolie.
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I'm a guy who loves my family, and we're probably only going to have a couple of more babies. I have the rest of my life to play the British Open.
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Intentions count in your actions.
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It's very important, at least for me and for Cynthia, to get outside input.
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Meditation, like masturbation, has until recently been considered a form of self-abuse.
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We are like figures which some great demonstrator draws upon the blackboard of Time. A problem is to be solved, without doubt; what the problem is, we, the figures, cannot know and do not need to know; all we know is that sooner or later we shall be sponged off the board and other figures take our places, and the demonstration go on.
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The Master insisted that what he taught was nothing, what he did was nothing. His disciples gradually discovered that Wisdom comes to those who learn nothing, unlearn everything. That transformation is the consequence not of something done, but of something dropped.
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I do a lot of writing. People don't actually know how much writing really I do.
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A Conservative government is necessary. There is no credible alternative.
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I have always loved maps.
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When given the opportunity to fail myself or fail someone else, I choose to fail myself.
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Every time you have a carrot instead of a cookie, every time you go to the gym instead of going to the movies, that's a costly investment in your health. But how much you want to invest is going to depend on how much longer you expect to live in the future, even if you don't make those investments.
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Don't do or say things you would not like to see on the front page of The Washington Post.
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I sublimate different parts of my personality through my characters. Which is worrying, as some of them can be a bit nasty. I'm pleased the stuff on the page isn't inside me any more.
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Tragically, policymakers have thrown horrendous amounts of taxpayer money needed for other purposes at solving an unsubstantiated emergency. It is scandalous that so many climate scientists who fully knew that Al Gore had no basis for his irresponsible claims stood mute.
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And yes, there's a simplicity to writing books because you're not a member of a team, so you make all the decisions yourself instead of deferring to a committee.
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I know you want it, boy. I see you tryin. Just keep on pushin, I'm a let you slide in.
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Pilots take no special joy in walking. Pilots like flying.
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Morality, like numinous awe, is a jump; in it, man goes beyond anything that can be 'given' in the facts of experience.
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It's easy to jump on any one guy when something goes wrong.
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We are closer to God when we are asking questions than when we think we have the answers.
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When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet.
