Wladyslaw Bartoszewski Quotes
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Home is most important in the long run.
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The important thing is to learn a lesson every time you lose. Life is a learning process and you have to try to learn what's best for you. Let me tell you, life is not fun when you're banging your head against a brick wall all the time.
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For a bad hangover take the juice of two quarts of whisky.
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The greatest force of personal liberation is the decision to widen our circle of compassion, moving from focus on self to focus on service.
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As history proves abundantly, mathematical achievement, whatever its intrinsic worth, is the most enduring of all.
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The noble must make humility his root.
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Healthy, well-informed, balanced criticism is the ozone of public life.
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The idea that there is one kind of African is, of course, ridiculous. Sometimes African entrepreneurs want to kill you because you are saying public health is the priority, not roads. Of course they are right to press for that issue, but so are we right, I believe, to argue, for example, that millions of children could and should be vaccinated.
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I will not pretend to justify this espionage I carried on, and I will say openly that all these signs of a life full of intellectual curiosity, but thoroughly slovenly and disorderly at the same time, inspired me at first with aversion and mistrust. I am not only a middle-class man, living a regular life, fond of work and punctuality; I am also an abstainer and a nonsmoker, and these bottles in Haller's room pleased me even less than the rest of his artistic disorder.
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I am very proud of the fact that 20 years on people tell me they became a vegetarian as a result of 'Meat is Murder'. “I think that is quite literally rock music changing someone's life - it's certainly changing the life of animals. It is one of the things I am most proud of.
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Do but take care to express yourself in a plain, easy Manner, in well-chosen, significant and decent Terms, and to give a harmonious and pleasing Turn to your Periods: study to explain your Thoughts, and set them in the truest Light, labouring as much as possible, not to leave them dark nor intricate, but clear and intelligible.
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Many of us are being held hostage by bitterness because we are not willing to give to others what we have been given.
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When I work on a piece I always think if there is an abundance of male characters which one could we change to a woman or a minority character.
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It's time to recognize what compromise means: no side wins or loses all.
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But surely he had told that story before. All of us, we tell our stories over and over again. Not in the same way and we don't always recognize them for what they are, the same way we don't always recognize that all creation myths boil down to God and man and a thunderstorm.
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I don't think the revisionist historians are accurate. I think their agendas are clouded by selfishness and anger and rage.
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The X Games have done night and day for snowboarding and action sports.
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As a historian I refuse to recognize an epochal boundary before the fact.
