Stanislaw Jerzy Lec Quotes
I am against using death as a punishment. I am also against using it as a reward.
Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
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Government is actually the worst failure of civilized man. There has never been a really good one, and even those that are most tolerable are arbitrary, cruel, grasping and unintelligent.
H. L. Mencken
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Our need will be the real creator.
Plato
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It is intelligent to have a plan, but neurotic to fall in love with it.
Albert Einstein
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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.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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The mother of excess is not joy but joylessness.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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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.
Charles Dickens
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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.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Inside him, twenty years dissolved and mixed into one complex, swirling whole. Everything that had accumulated over the years-- all he had seen, all the words he has spoken, all the values he had held-- all of it coalesced into one solid, thick pillar in his heart, the core of which was spinning like a potter's wheel. Wordlessly, Tengo observed the scene, as if watching the destruction and rebirth of a planet.
Haruki Murakami
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There is no such thing as an ugly woman.
Vincent Van Gogh
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I'm never nervous.
Bono
U2
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I am against using death as a punishment. I am also against using it as a reward.
Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
