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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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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The breakthrough innovations come when the tension is greatest and the resources are most limited. That's when people are actually a lot more open to rethinking the fundamental way they do business.
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I'm on the road constantly. I'm a nomad. I don't really have a home right now. I don't identify with one place in particular.
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Of all the damnable waste of human life that ever was invented, clerking is the worst.
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We try really hard to avoid those conventional experiences, these adrenaline rush, anger, competition, violence. We intentionally avoid that. We try to create a game that's serene and tranquil and filled with love.
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I know that something dies when i give up my books, and that my memory keeps going back to them with mournful nostalgia.
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Reading isn't good for a ballplayer. Not good for his eyes. If my eyes went bad even a little bit I couldn't hit home runs. So I gave up reading.
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Keep your eyes open. Make mistakes - because you will anyway - and remember that small stuff stinks but that it's also essential.
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Puritans should wear fig leaves on their eyes.
