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Quotes by Hungarian Authors
"Broad paths are open to every endeavour, and a sympathetic recognition is assured to every one who consecrates his art to the divine services of a conviction of a consciousness."
"The source of this energy is the sun's radiation."
"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."
"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."
"If you come from Paris to Budapest you think you are in Moscow."
"A person of any mental quality has ideas of his own. This is common sense."
"The Jews had, as a matter of fact, long been all along the most ingenious entrepreneurs. It was only our own future that we had never built upon a business basis."
"Our opponents maintain that we are confronted with insurmountable political obstacles, but that may be said of the smallest obstacle if one has no desire to surmount it."
"This oxidation of hydrogen in stages seems to be one of the basic principles of biological oxidation."
"The classical example of a successful research programme is Newton's gravitational theory: possibly the most successful research programme ever."
"The only things you regret are the things you don't do."
"Out of nothing I have created a strange new universe."
"But I am convinced that those Jews who stand aside today with a malicious smile and with their hands in their trousers' pockets will also want to dwell in our beautiful home."
"Let sovereignty be granted us over a portion of the earth's surface large enough to satisfy our rightful requirements as a nation. The rest we shall manage for ourselves."
"I came not to your glorious shores to enjoy a happy rest - I came not to gather triumphs of personal distinction, but as a humble petitioner, in my country's name, as its freely chosen constitutional leader, to entreat your generous aid."
"It is simple nonsense to speak of the fixed tempo of any particular vocal phrase. Each voice has its peculiarities."
"I wanted to get away from my past and everything connected with it."
"It always makes me sad when I think of how I saw Wagner wasting his vitality, not only by singing their parts to some of his artists, but acting out the smallest details, and of how few they were who were responsive to his wishes."
"The positive heuristic of the programme saves the scientist from becoming confused by the ocean of anomalies."
"Men like me, who merely wish to establish political freedom, will in such circumstances lose all their influence, and others will get influence who may become dangerous to all established interests whatsoever."
"Another method of eating burning coals employs small balls of burned cotton in a dish of burning alcohol."
"Scientists are peeping toms at the keyhole of eternity."
"Real men are sadly lacking in this world, for when they are put to the test they prove worthless."
"If I had undertaken the practical direction of military operations, and anything went amiss, I feared that my conscience would torture me, as guilty of the fall of my country, as I had not been familiar with military tactics."
"My entire learning process is slow, because I have no visual memory."
"Now that I have called you on your false accusation, you are using additional smear tactics."
"I have only one loyalty - to my writing. I never wanted to be the head of a studio or a producer."
"It is chiefly in New York that I feel induced to urge this, because New York is, by innumerable ties, connected with Europe - more connected than several parts of Europe itself."
"I can understand Communism, but not Socialism."
"If anyone thinks that Jews can steal into the land of their fathers, he is deceiving either himself or others. Nowhere is the coming of Jews so promptly noted as in the historic home of the Jews, for the very reason that it is the historic home."
"The music of the Gypsies belongs in the sphere of improvisation rather than in any other, without which it would have no power to exist."
"Human beings exercise responsibilities within a social setting and a framework of obligations which transcend the principle of intelligence."
"President Bush is endangering our safety, hurting our vital interests, and undermining American values."
"Civilization is built on a number of ultimate principles... respect for human life, the punishment of crimes against property and persons, the equality of all good citizens before the law... or, in a word justice."
"Bad leadership during the past years has cast on our Party the shadow of great and grave burdens."
"The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards."
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