Witold Gombrowicz Quotes
Against the background of general freakishness the case of my particular freakishness was lost.
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Nature's message is clear: we can't keep doing what we're doing now.
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Each generation of scientists also depends upon its own environment.
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As crude a weapon as a cave man's club, the chemical barrage has been hurled against the fabric of life.
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I'm the type of person who loves to stay busy, even in my off-season.
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A smile is just such an amazing thing. And to think that some of those people can now smile because they can see you, that gives me that sort of charge, energy... that's what powers up my batteries. That's the joy that I have and that keeps me going. That's my rocket fuel, I suppose.
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The Chinese government launched China's first 24-hour news channel. And since the channel will only report stories that are favorable to the ruling party, they've decided to call it Fox News.
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The first merit of pictures is the effect which they can produce upon the mind; — and the first step of a sensible man should be to receive involuntary effects from them. Pleasure and inspiration first, analysis afterward.
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I'm proud of Russia, that's true. And we have something to be proud of, but we do not have any obsession with being a superpower in the international arena.
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What we do in dreams we also do when we are awake: we invent and fabricate the person with whom we associate - and immediately forget we have done so.
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But I'm in favor of every religion with the possible exception of snake-chunking. Anybody that so presumes on how he stands with Providence that he will let a snake bite him, I say he deserves what he's got coming to him.
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The measure of a society can be how well its people treat its animals.
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The thing is you can get used to anything you think you cant you want to die but you dont you cant you just are.
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Nations are born in the hearts of poets, they prosper and die in the hands of politicians.
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In some cases they do a good job, and in some cases they don't do a very good job. The commissioner of the WAC just has too much say in what's going on.
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Against the background of general freakishness the case of my particular freakishness was lost.
