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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."
"Philanthropic colonization is a failure. National colonization will succeed."
"God may not play dice with the universe, but something strange is going on with the prime numbers."
"A man in love is incomplete until he has married. Then he's finished."
"Our empirical criterion for a series of theories is that it should produce new facts. The idea of growth and the concept of empirical character are soldered into one."
"The eating of burning brimstone is an entirely fake performance."
"The positive heuristic of the programme saves the scientist from becoming confused by the ocean of anomalies."
"I want a man who's kind and understanding. Is that too much to ask of a millionaire?"
"Research is to see what everybody else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought."
"Scientists are peeping toms at the keyhole of eternity."
"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."
"I wanted to get away from my past and everything connected with it."
"A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems."
"I think there's a lot of merit in an international economy and global markets, but they're not sufficient because markets don't look after social needs."
"Another method of eating burning coals employs small balls of burned cotton in a dish of burning alcohol."
"The principle mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers."
"Once I completed the Cube and demonstrated it to my students, I realized it was nearly impossible to put down."
"The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards."
"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."
"President Bush is endangering our safety, hurting our vital interests, and undermining American values."
"I believe that the confidence of Hungary in me is not shaken by misfortune nor broken by my calumniators."
"Real men are sadly lacking in this world, for when they are put to the test they prove worthless."
"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."
"When I had made more money than I needed for myself and my family, I set up a foundation to promote the values and principles of a free and open society."
"We need improvement in the style of performance. There is no more advantage in a musician who plays and conducts than in one who is only a beater of rhythm."
"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 still an open question, however, as to what extent exposure really injures a performer."
"Economic distress, political pressure, and social obloquy already drive us from our homes and from our graves. The Jews are already constantly shifting from place to place."
"It is simple nonsense to speak of the fixed tempo of any particular vocal phrase. Each voice has its peculiarities."
"But one day, when I was still young, I was parted from my family and left my native country. I hunted and searched for music, and destiny turned me into the object of my hunt. The circumstances of life became my 'antlers' and prevented me from returning home."
"It is impossible to imagine a more complete fusion with nature than that of the Gypsy."
"To cause the face to appear in a mass of flame make use of the following: mix together thoroughly petroleum, lard, mutton tallow and quick lime. Distill this over a charcoal fire, and the liquid which results can be burned on the face without harm."
"What We want is to make it possible for our unfortunate people to live a life of industry for it is by steady work alone that we hope for our physical and moral rehabilitation. For this reason above all we have undertaken to rally our people around our ideal."
"You must be a power on earth, and must therefore accept all the consequences of this position."
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