Stanislaw Jerzy Lec Quotes
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The world's made up of individuals who don't want to be heroes.
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He who kills the cheer springs for beer.
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I ain't gon' say that I forgive you cause it hasn't happened I thought that maybe I feel better as time passes If you really cared for me, then where you at then?
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In his home-life Turgot remained most frugal and laborious, treating his servants with a benevolence then accounted contemptible, and working out his quiet schemes with an infinite patience and thoroughness. When he was offered the richer Intendancy of Lyons, he would not take it. Here, as he said of himself, though he was 'the compulsory instrument of great evil,' he was doing a little good. Only a little, it might be. But if every man did the little he could — what a different world!
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After the 1929 crash, the Federal Reserve mistakenly focused its policies on preserving the gold value of the dollar rather than on stabilizing the domestic economy.
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Joy is peace dancing and peace is joy at rest.
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I was a Skynyrd fan all along. But I was also the brother of the lead singer who passed on. I just didn't want to do anything that would harm the band's name.
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A man must completely despair of himself in order to become fit to obtain the grace of Christ.
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I love how art brings people from all different walks of life together in that way.
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I'd love to have a Christmas classic under my belt. It's hard to write a Christmas song.
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I'll listen to the people. I will not put my party ahead of what the people want.
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Obama's extraordinary political skills suggest he is more than capable of rising above any personal historical grudges he may have inherited.
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The U.S. has enough problems without publicity seekers going out and openly mocking religion in order to provoke attacks and death. BE SMART.
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There are aphorisms that, like airplanes, stay up only while they are in motion.
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Belief in form, but disbelief in content - that's what makes an aphorism charming.
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The healthy know not of their health, but only the sick: this is the physician's aphorism, and applicable in a far wider sense than he gives it.
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Time is priceless, yet it costs us nothing. You can do anything you want with it, but you can’t own it. You can spend it, but you can’t keep it. And once you’ve lost it, there is no getting it back. It’s just gone.
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An apt aphorism half kills, half immortalizes.
