Stanislaw Jerzy Lec Quotes
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I wanted to be a world champion.
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'Didn't Frankenstein get married?'Did he?' said Eggy. 'I don't know. I never met him. Harrow man, I expect.'
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Being strong does not mean that you never fall down, but that whenever you fall, you get up again.
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God doesn't slack his promises because of our sins or hasten them because of our righteousness. He pays no attention to either.
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I use products from my dermatologist but the best things you can do for your skin, are not smoke always use sunscreen and drink a lot of water.
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Everyone tells tiny lies, what's important really is the size.
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We are able to choose what we want - you don't have to accept one thing from one tradition. It's a melting pot.
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Each one should realize there is nothing in us which denies that which we desire.
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I am probably the last of a generation able to gain an education in country music by osmosis, by sitting in a '64 Ford banging the buttons on the radio.
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The Israeli-Palestinian conflict and Jihadism have nothing to do with each other.
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It is a powerful practice to be generous when you are the one feeling in need.
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A person without curiosity may as well be dead.
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A living system continually re-creates itself. But how this occurs in social systems such as global institutions depends on our level of awareness, both individually and collectively... As long as our thinking is governed by industrial, "machine age" metaphors such as control, predicatbility, and "faster is better", we will continue to re-create institutions as we have, despite their increasing disharmony with the larger world.
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We must have clean water and the health and the welfare of our children is at stake and is at risk.
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We need a type of patriotism that recognizes the virtues of those who are opposed to us..... The old "manifest destiny" idea ought to be modified so that each nation has the manifest destiny to do the best it can - and that without cant, without the assumption of self-righteousness and with a desire to learn to the uttermost from other nations.
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And it will always happen that he who is not your friend will request your neutrality and he who is your friend will ask you to declare yourself by taking up arms. And irresolute princes, in order to avoid present dangers, follow the neutral road most of the time, and most of the time they are ruined.
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A half truth is the worst of all lies,because it can be defended in partiality.
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Impartiality is not neutrality. It is partiality for justice.
