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Quotes by Hungarian Authors
"I hope we'll be able to solve these problems before we leave."
"Human beings exercise responsibilities within a social setting and a framework of obligations which transcend the principle of intelligence."
"If even in science there is no a way of judging a theory but by assessing the number, faith and vocal energy of its supporters, then this must be even more so in the social sciences: truth lies in power."
"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."
"Of course language manifests a belief only if we use its words with the implied acceptance of their appositeness."
"Rather than lose the public because television is here, wouldn't it be smart to adopt television as our instrument?"
"Admittedly, scientific authority is not distributed evenly throughout the body of scientists; some distinguished members of the profession predominate over others of a more junior standing."
"An open society is a society which allows its members the greatest possible degree of freedom in pursuing their interests compatible with the interests of others."
"That's sort of what I felt... I miss drinking, I thought bars were truly holy places."
"When I was younger I was completely without money - when I was studying in Budapest, when I was a refugee."
"The experience awakened 'my tremendous musical ambition, which has never subsided to this day."
"I can only hope that neither of my daughters was scarred by their upbringing."
"Hungary is, in a word, in a state of WAR against the Hapsburg dynasty, a war of legitimate defence, by which alone it can ever regain independence and freedom."
"There is at least one point in the history of any company when you have to change dramatically to rise to the next level of performance. Miss that moment - and you start to decline."
"I learned, too, how it was possible with the help of the picture and action to transform an apparently insignificant violin passage into an incident, and to lift a simple horn call into a thing of stupendous significance by means of scenic emphasis."
"I think a composer is always interested in his last work."
"I'm not exactly an Einstein, so I compensate by being more focused."
"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."
"Just as we could have rode into the sunset, along came the Internet, and it tripled the significance of the PC."
"Perhaps the better word is emotional yes, I am an emotional man."
"Cigarettes are not a part of human behaviour, they are a habit."
"I do not truly consider myself an icon, but the Cube has been quite successful."
"I hold that the propositions embodied in natural science are not derived by any definite rule from the data of experience, and that they can neither be verified nor falsified by experience according to any definite rule."
"If the world operates as one big market, every employee will compete with every person anywhere in the world who is capable of doing the same job. There are lots of them and many of them are hungry."
"If we know what that set point is, we can predict fairly accurately when you will be in flow, and it will be when your challenges are higher than average and skills are higher than average."
"I address myself to the Communists, to those Communists who were prompted to join the Party by the progressive ideas of mankind and socialism, and not by selfish personal interests - let us represent our pure and just ideas by pure and just means."
"America does not need gorgeous halls and concert rooms for its musical development, but music schools with competent teachers, and many, very many, free scholarships for talented young disciples who are unable to pay the expense of study."
"For yesterday and for all tomorrows, we dance the best we know."
"Maybe I'm less sensitive to these issues because I see that what people need first is economic security, and only when they have that can they afford to focus on human rights."
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