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Quotes by Hungarian Authors
"I shall suggest, on the contrary, that all communication relies, to a noticeable extent on evoking knowledge that we cannot tell, and that all our knowledge of mental processes, like feelings or conscious intellectual activities, is based on a knowledge which we cannot tell."
"And it has become a kind of a truism in the study of creativity that you can't be creating anything with less than 10 years of technical knowledge immersion in a particular field."
"I make the most money, I think, in Russia and Paris, for the people of those countries are so willing to be amused, so eager to see something new and out of the ordinary."
"But it must not be thought that I say this out of personal experience: for in the many years that I have been before the public my secret methods have been steadily shielded by the strict integrity of my assistants, most of whom have been with me for years."
"We believe that salvation is to be found in wholesome work in a beloved land. Work will provide our people with the bread of tomorrow, and moreover, with the honor of the tomorrow, the freedom of the tomorrow."
"Bad leadership during the past years has cast on our Party the shadow of great and grave burdens."
"Like after a nice walk when you have seen many lovely sights you decide to go home, after a while I decided it was time to go home, let us put the cubes back in order. And it was at that moment that I came face to face with the Big Challenge: What is the way home?"
"Rather than lose the public because television is here, wouldn't it be smart to adopt television as our instrument?"
"To my mind, there is a solution which has to do with democracy, because democratic governments are subject to the will of the people. So, if the people will it, you can actually create international institutions through the democratic states."
"Well, you know, I was a human being before I became a businessman."
"I'm still the same person, thinking the same way, so it's possible I will invent something."
"That's sort of what I felt... I miss drinking, I thought bars were truly holy places."
"Let us take our children seriously! Everything else follows from this... only the best is good enough for a child."
"Human beings exercise responsibilities within a social setting and a framework of obligations which transcend the principle of intelligence."
"We could not, for example, arrive at a principle like that of entropy without introducing some additional principle, such as randomness, to this topography."
"Although both sides of my family were religious, I was never forced to practice the Jewish faith. I did not really rebel against it, but then, as today, I disliked organized religion. I have a strange inhibition about praying with others."
"In my opinion, the form of Government may be different in different countries, according to their circumstances, their wishes, their wants. England loves her Queen, and has full motive to do so."
"A full and fair discussion is essential to democracy."
"The artist writes, paints, sings or dances the burden of some idea or feeling off his mind."
"There is a resurgence of anti-Semitism in Europe. The policies of the Bush administration and the Sharon administration contribute to that. It's not specifically anti-Semitism, but it does manifest itself in anti-Semitism as well."
"Now, after the Cube, I still don't have any plans to make anything like it."
"But thanks to my invention, my capitalist friends and I were able to bring the government to its knees."
"From what I've been able to determine, many of our big stars are addicted to tobacco. They want to smoke in movies for the same reason I smoked as I wrote, which is that they think their performance is going to be better."
"The composers could no longer direct all performances in person, and so the responsibility of interpreting their works in the spirit in which they had been conceived was placed upon conductors."
"When I was younger I was completely without money - when I was studying in Budapest, when I was a refugee."
"We must recognize that as the dominant power in the world we have a special responsibility. In addition to protecting our national interests, we must take the leadership in protecting the common interests of humanity."
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