Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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Behavior used to be reinforced by great deprivation; if people weren't hungry, they wouldn't work. Now we are committed to feeding people whether they work or not. Nor is money as great a reinforcer as it once was. People no longer work for punitive reasons, yet our culture offers no new satisfactions.
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Developing a relationship with someone you admire, who can encourage you to reach your full potential, is something that everyone can benefit from.
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I don't have any romanticism about any part of my past. I think of it only inasmuch as it gave me pleasure or helped me grow psychologically. That is the only thing that interests me about yesterday. I don't believe in yesterday, by the way. You know I don't believe in yesterday. I am only interested in what I am doing now.
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I'm always described as 'cocksure' or 'with a swagger,' and that bears no resemblance to who I feel like inside. I feel plagued by insecurity.
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I'm unbelievably superstitious.
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Every soak-the-rich tax must become in time a soak-the-poor tax.
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My serve has killed a small dog ... I'm joking, I'm joking! The dog was huge!
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Parkinson's Fourth Law: The number of people in any working group tends to increase regardless of the amount of work to be done.
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I never thought of myself as explaining cats in general. I simply viewed the cats I have known as characters in my life, often as quirky and complex as the humans with whom I have spent time.
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If a guy is gonna to play good bop, he has to have a sort of a bop soul.
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To love one's neighbor is a tough command. It works better for people who live far away.
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The men who use Bumble appreciate a confident woman, a woman who has a voice. A lot of men suffer from insecurity and fear rejection, too. Bumble removes that fear, as they don't have to make the first move, so it benefits both men and women.
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Keeping the balance reached with Iran on the nuclear issue.
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The strength of a nation lies in the homes of its people.
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Have you noticed there are no interesting people in heaven? -Just a hint to the girls as to where they can find their salvation.
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The human being is that space in which the comprehensive compassion that pervades the universe from the very beginning now begins to surface --within consciousness. As compared with the natural displays of compassion by other creatures that is not necessarily 'within consciousness. That's the only difference. We didn't create compassion, but it's flowing through us-or it could. The phase change that we're in seems, to me, to depend upon that comprehensive compassion unfurling in the human species.
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I feel that so many sci-fi films and films in general have just become really dependent on and addicted to CGI, and that some of the big CGI films of the summer, you see these effects that look like crap. You don't know if you're watching a cartoon or something that's real. And I didn't want to fall into that trap. I really thought there was a way to use a lot of these old techniques to do some new and really neat stuff.
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I'm very particular about the kind of music that I record and sing, and it would be the same way about the kind of movies that I would do.
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The great end of art is to strike the imagination with the power of a soul that refuses to admit defeat even in the midst of a collapsing world.
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He pleaded so much that he lost his voice. His bones began to fill with words.
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I'm one-time-only to the marrow of my bones.
