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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That was all part of giving someone a piece of your heart; they ended up taking a whole chunk of your mind and reserving it all for themselves.
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The way in which we manage the business of getting and spending is closely tied to our personal philosophy of living. We begin to develop this philosophy long before we have our first dollar to spend; and unless we are thinking people, our attitude toward money management may continue through the years to be tinged with the ignorance and innocence of childhood.
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The code of Hammurabi in ancient Babylon prescribed this
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Here the great art lies, to discern in what the law is to be to restraint and punishment, and in what things persuasion only is to work.
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I am against using death as a punishment. I am also against using it as a reward.
