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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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.
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Our need will be the real creator.
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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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Once you break someone of the habit of up-talking, they can start to see immediate improvement in their careers.
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I think horror comedies tend to skew more comedy than horror, for the most part.
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And could I look upon her without compassion, seeing her punishment in the ruin she was, in her profound unfitness for this earth on which she was placed, in the vanity of sorrow which had become a master mania, like the vanity of penitence, the vanity of remorse, the vanity of unworthiness, and other monstrous vanities that have been curses in this world?
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I am against using death as a punishment. I am also against using it as a reward.
