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Quotes by Hungarian Authors
"The academy gave me a grounding in discipline and hard work that has sustained me throughout my life, and the lessons I learned there I now try to impress on young people."
"Beware of missing chances; otherwise it may be altogether too late some day."
"My grandfather was not a musician but he was an artist - a painter, a decorative painter."
"A good puzzle, it's a fair thing. Nobody is lying. It's very clear, and the problem depends just on you."
"The financial markets generally are unpredictable. So that one has to have different scenarios... The idea that you can actually predict what's going to happen contradicts my way of looking at the market."
"Flames from the lips may be produced by holding in the mouth a sponge saturated with the purest gasoline."
"How many husbands have I had? You mean apart from my own?"
"Courage is never to let your actions be influenced by your fears."
"I call everyone 'Darling' because I can't remember their names."
"When it comes to social consequences, they've got all different people acting in different ways, very difficult to even have a proper criterion of success. So, it's a difficult task."
"In my piano concerto I developed this polyphony to much higher complexity."
"Conrad Hilton was very generous to me in the divorce settlement. He gave me 5000 Gideon Bibles."
"Husbands are like fires - they go out when unattended."
"I must therefore implore your indulgence for a pretty long and plain development of my views concerning that cause which the citizens of New York, and you particularly, gentlemen, honour with generous interest."
"Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes."
"It is true that we aspire to our ancient land. But what we want in that ancient land is a new blossoming of the Jewish spirit."
"Fire has always been and, seemingly, will always remain, the most terrible of the elements."
"Prometheus is reaching out for the stars with an empty grin on his face."
"Blind commitment to a theory is not an intellectual virtue: it is an intellectual crime."
"Markets are constantly in a state of uncertainty and flux and money is make by discounting the obvious and betting on the unexpected."
"Those of us who are today prepared to hazard our lives for the cause would regret having raised a finger, if we were able to organize only a new social system and not a more righteous one."
"The Hungarian ministry begged the king earnestly to issue orders to all troops and commanders of fortresses in Hungary, enjoining fidelity to the Constitution, and obedience to the ministers of Hungary."
"In all feats of fire-eating it should be noted that the head is thrown well back, so that the flame may pass out of the open mouth instead of up into the roof, as it would if the head were held naturally."
"I am a marvelous housekeeper. Every time I leave a man I keep his house."
"Markets are designed to allow individuals to look after their private needs and to pursue profit. It's really a great invention and I wouldn't under-estimate the value of that, but they're not designed to take care of social needs."
"The Jewish people asked nothing of its sons except not to be denied. The world is grateful to every great man when he brings it something; only the paternal home thanks the son who brings nothing but himself."
"I can understand Communism, but not Socialism."
"Research programmes, besides their negative heuristic, are also characterized by their positive heuristic."
"The source of this energy is the sun's radiation."
"I incline to an aristocratic republic. This would satisfy the ambitious spirit among our people. We shall learn from the historic mistakes of others in the same way as we learn from our own; for we are a modern nation and wish to be the most modern in the world."
"Creative activity could be described as a type of learning process where teacher and pupil are located in the same individual."
"If you come from Paris to Budapest you think you are in Moscow."
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