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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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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What we like about women is sensuality, wildness, hormones. Women who make a song and dance about their intuition.
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These are the times for real choices and not false ones. We are at the moment when our lives must be placed on the line if our nation is to survive its own folly. Every man of humane convictions must decide on the protest that best suits his convictions, but we must all protest.
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Young people have a marvelous faculty of either dying or adapting themselves to circumstances.
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I am against using death as a punishment. I am also against using it as a reward.
