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Quotes by Hungarian Authors
"He taught me housekeeping; when I divorce I keep the house."
"The house of Austria has publicly used every effort to deprive the country of its legitimate Independence and Constitution, designing to reduce it to a level with the other provinces long since deprived of all freedom, and to unite all in a common sink of slavery."
"Indeed, this epistemological theory of the relation between theory and experiment differs sharply from the epistemological theory of naive falsificationism."
"Philosophy of science without history of science is empty; history of science without philosophy of science is blind."
"I foster a sorrowful conception of affection. Make no sacrifices."
"Four years ago in speaking of a Jewish nation one ran the risk of being regarded ridiculous. Today he makes himself ridiculous who denies the existence of a Jewish nation."
"The problems of puzzles are very near the problems of life."
"I consider no man honest who does not observe towards other nations the principles which he desires to be observed towards his own: and therefore I will not interfere in your domestic questions."
"My foundations support people in the country who care about an open society. It's their work that I'm supporting. So it's not me doing it. But I can empower them. I can support them, and I can help them."
"Proposition 19 already is a winner no matter what happens on election day. The mere fact of its being on the ballot has elevated and legitimized public discourse about marijuana and marijuana policy in ways I could not have imagined a year ago."
"I wanted nothing else than to make the object as perfect as possible."
"Who most benefits from keeping marijuana illegal? The greatest beneficiaries are the major criminal organizations in Mexico and elsewhere that earn billions of dollars annually from this illicit trade - and who would rapidly lose their competitive advantage if marijuana were a legal commodity."
"The prerequisite of originality is the art of forgetting, at the proper moment, what we know."
"But I do not want to use Hungarian verses for British people."
"The camera is my tool. Through it I give a reason to everything around me."
"But then, so far as I know, I am the only performer who ever pledged his assistants to secrecy, honor and allegiance under a notarial oath."
"Our first object is... the obtaining of sovereignty, assured by international law, over a portion of the globe sufficiently large to satisfy our just requirements."
"I ask every Communist individually to set an example, by deeds and without pretense, a real example worthy of a man and a Communist, in restoring order, starting normal life, in resuming work and production, and in laying the foundations of an ordered life."
"I give away something up to $500 million a year throughout the world promoting Open Society. My foundations support people in the country who care about an open society. It's their work that I'm supporting. So it's not me doing it."
"I chose America as my home because I value freedom and democracy, civil liberties and an open society."
"It is one of the maladies of our age to profess a frenzied allegiance to truth in unimportant matters, to refuse consistently to face her where graver issues are at stake."
"So give me a turbulent world as opposed to a quiet world and I'll take the turbulent one."
"And, in fact, you can find that the lack of basic resources, material resources, contributes to unhappiness, but the increase in material resources do not increase happiness."
"I just wanted to make sure that what I write is what appears on screen, to not have some idiot change it on its way to the screen."
"My nomination to be Governor was not to gratify ambition."
"But you don't get into a business because of personal tastes."
"Friends are very important to me, and I have always had many of them. There are probably many reasons why this is so, but two seem to me more valid than any of the others I am a naturally friendly person, and I hate to be alone."
"But even physics cannot be defined from an atomic topography."
"I'm not doing my philanthropic work, out of any kind of guilt, or any need to create good public relations. I'm doing it because I can afford to do it, and I believe in it."
"Neutrality, as a lasting principle, is an evidence of weakness."
"I don't remember anybody's name. How do you think the "dahling" thing got started?"
"The studios have been taken over by marketing people and accountants."
"But if you go from Moscow to Budapest you think you are in Paris."
"Stock market bubbles don't grow out of thin air. They have a solid basis in reality, but reality as distorted by a misconception."
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