Stanislaw Jerzy Lec Quotes
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I struggle if I have chaos around me, but at the same time, if I don't have it, I'm uncomfortable. It's a strange thing: If I don't have chaos, I create it.
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I don't know if it has set in or not. Honestly, it's crazy. It's such an amazing honor. I remember thinking back to being in my room waiting for the call to see if I got the part. It's like winning the lottery. I'm proud to be a member of such an amazing cast - that's the best award of all.
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A victim is a victim is a victim. We should stop setting up standards that say we will have one standard of law enforcement for one group of victims but not for another.
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If you realize you aren't so wise today as you thought you were yesterday, you're wiser today.
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Every girl has days when she doesn't like her appearance, but it's when you feel happy in yourself that you look good.
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I have not watched Glenn Beck. I don't watch him.
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I am very happy and honored to be part of the Sony ATV family.
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We had to be very careful on our best behaviour when we went to these other countries. And then I made a living, I had a chance to support my wife and my kids. It was a wonderful, wonderful, wonderful program from that point of view.
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Our live experiences, fixed in aphorisms, stiffen into cold epigrams. Our heart's blood, as we write it, turns to mere dull ink.
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Every man thinks meanly of himself for not having been a soldier, or not having been at sea.
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Indeed, it is not too much to say that the normal relation of States is war.
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All strugglesAre essentiallyPower struggles.Who will rule,Who will lead,Who will define,refine,confine,design,Who will dominate.All strugglesAre essentiallyPower struggles, And mostare no more intellectualthan two ramsknocking their heads together.
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A true nation is held together not by any political creed but by patriotism.... For two centuries, men have died for America.
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Our whole political machinery presupposes a people so fundamentally at one that they can safely afford to bicker.
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Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.
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A great affliction of all Philistines is that idealities afford them no entertainment, but to escape from boredom they are always in need of realities.
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The problem is, in software design, often the consequences of your decisions don't become apparent for years.
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There's never been a song that I just wrote and tried to send to an artist.
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That's a very important thing in life, to be really looked upon for the qualities which you hold in yourself and not all of superficiality.
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Kafka truly illustrates the way the environment oppresses the individual. He shows how the unconscious controls our lives.
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The eyes of some of the fans at Davis Cup matches scare me. There's no light in them. Fixed emotions. Blind worship. Horror. It makes me think of what happened to us long ago.
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When we begin to see each other through what the metaphysician calls, the third eye, we begin to know each other on a level that is beyond what our physical eyes can see.
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Puritans should wear fig leaves on their eyes.
