Stanislaw Jerzy Lec Quotes
I am against using death as a punishment. I am also against using it as a reward.
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It was the short men that caused all the trouble in the world.
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Never wound a snake; kill it.
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I think I have an ongoing conversation with God. I think throughout the day, I'm constantly asking myself questions about what I'm doing, why am I doing it.
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We in the House of Lords are never in touch with public opinion. That makes us a civilised body.
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Those who saw Pope John Paul II either in person or through the mass media glimpsed a man who millions of Catholics believe may be one of the greatest popes in the history of the church.
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Love without knowledge is demonic.
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It is intelligent to have a plan, but neurotic to fall in love with it.
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The so-called paradoxes of an author, to which a reader takes exception, often exist not in the author's book at all, but rather in the reader's head.
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The mother of excess is not joy but joylessness.
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Others had been a little wild, which was not to be wondered at, and not very blamable; but, he had made a lamentation and uproar which it was dangerous for the people to hear, as there is always contagion in weakness and selfishness.
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Every blade of grass, every insect, ant, and golden bee, all so amazingly know their path, though they have not intelligence, they bear witness to the mystery of God and continually accomplish it themselves.
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There is a remedy for everything but death; who, in spite of our teeth, will take us in his clutches.
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It feels like we've grown enough as musicians over the last few years to go new places, and our conceptual and compositional abilities have developed along with it, so we're pushing all the envelopes we can at the same time and it still feels like cutting edge work to us. It seems to resonate with people.
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Great God, grant that twice two be not four.
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A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.
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I am against using death as a punishment. I am also against using it as a reward.
