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Quotes by Hungarian Authors

"The time draws near, when a radical change must take place for the whole world in the management of diplomacy."
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Lajos Kossuth
"The time draws near, when a radical change must take place for the whole world in the management of diplomacy."
"If I'd known how old I was going to be I'd have taken better care of myself."
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Adolph Zukor
"If I'd known how old I was going to be I'd have taken better care of myself."
"There are hurts so deep that one cannot reach them or heal them with words."
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Kate Seredy
"There are hurts so deep that one cannot reach them or heal them with words."
"Now on a personal level with things like the California Tax Commission... I really think if people started banding together and saying no to this it could snowball and that could really help."
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Joe Eszterhas
"Now on a personal level with things like the California Tax Commission... I really think if people started banding together and saying no to this it could snowball and that could really help."
"We'll take a five-minute break while I go give myself hell."
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Antal Dorati
"We'll take a five-minute break while I go give myself hell."
Antal Dorati, Hungarian Composer
Hell,
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"This celebration here tells me that this work is not hopeless. I thank you for this teaching with all my heart and lift my glass to human solidarity, to the ultimate victory of knowledge, peace, good-will and understanding."
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Albert Szent Gyorgyi
"This celebration here tells me that this work is not hopeless. I thank you for this teaching with all my heart and lift my glass to human solidarity, to the ultimate victory of knowledge, peace, good-will and understanding."
"Singing connected with movements and action is a much more ancient, and, at the same time, more complex phenomenon than is a simple song."
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Zoltan Kodaly
"Singing connected with movements and action is a much more ancient, and, at the same time, more complex phenomenon than is a simple song."
"Kill the snake of doubt in your soul, crush the worms of fear in your heart and mountains will move out of your way."
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Kate Seredy
"Kill the snake of doubt in your soul, crush the worms of fear in your heart and mountains will move out of your way."
"I have often heard the statement made by foreign singers, as a demonstrated fact, that the German artists are artists in feeling indeed, and serious in their devotion, but that their singing is crude."
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Anton Seidl
"I have often heard the statement made by foreign singers, as a demonstrated fact, that the German artists are artists in feeling indeed, and serious in their devotion, but that their singing is crude."
"Conducting! A subject, truly, concerning which much might be written, yet scarcely anything of real importance is to be found in books."
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Anton Seidl
"Conducting! A subject, truly, concerning which much might be written, yet scarcely anything of real importance is to be found in books."
"I would advise my young colleagues, the composers of symphonies, to drop in sometimes at the kindergarten, too. It is there that it is decided whether there will be anybody to understand their works in twenty years' time."
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Zoltan Kodaly
"I would advise my young colleagues, the composers of symphonies, to drop in sometimes at the kindergarten, too. It is there that it is decided whether there will be anybody to understand their works in twenty years' time."
"The laws of morals and the laws of music are the same."
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Zoltan Kodaly
"The laws of morals and the laws of music are the same."
"One must do no violence to nature, nor model it in conformity to any blindly formed chimera."
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Janos Bolyai
"One must do no violence to nature, nor model it in conformity to any blindly formed chimera."
"My personal influence in the Revolutionary Governing Council is such that the dictatorship of the proletariat is firmly established, since the masses are backing me."
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Bela Kun
"My personal influence in the Revolutionary Governing Council is such that the dictatorship of the proletariat is firmly established, since the masses are backing me."
"I also had a mistaken attitude towards certain comrades."
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Bela Kun
"I also had a mistaken attitude towards certain comrades."
Bela Kun, Hungarian Politician
Attitude,
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"In music one must think with the heart and feel with the brain."
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George Szell
"In music one must think with the heart and feel with the brain."
"It is correct that I overlooked the contamination of the party, not just now but also in the past."
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Bela Kun
"It is correct that I overlooked the contamination of the party, not just now but also in the past."
Bela Kun, Hungarian Politician
Now, Party, Past
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"As to Magyar, I think that my speech was incorrect, inappropriate."
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Bela Kun
"As to Magyar, I think that my speech was incorrect, inappropriate."
"Poetry is plucking at the heartstrings, and making music with them."
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Dennis Gabor
"Poetry is plucking at the heartstrings, and making music with them."
"Till now man has been up against Nature; from now on he will be up against his own nature."
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Dennis Gabor
"Till now man has been up against Nature; from now on he will be up against his own nature."
"The product is the delivery of the largest number of people at the least cost."
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George Gerbner
"The product is the delivery of the largest number of people at the least cost."
"You take a number of small steps which you believe are right, thinking maybe tomorrow somebody will treat this as a dangerous provocation. And then you wait. If there is no reaction, you take another step: courage is only an accumulation of small steps."
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George Konrad
"You take a number of small steps which you believe are right, thinking maybe tomorrow somebody will treat this as a dangerous provocation. And then you wait. If there is no reaction, you take another step: courage is only an accumulation of small steps."
"I believe that it is my job not only to write books but to have them published. A book is like a child. You have to defend the life of a child."
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George Konrad
"I believe that it is my job not only to write books but to have them published. A book is like a child. You have to defend the life of a child."
"The most important and urgent problems of the technology of today are no longer the satisfactions of the primary needs or of archetypal wishes, but the reparation of the evils and damages by the technology of yesterday."
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Dennis Gabor
"The most important and urgent problems of the technology of today are no longer the satisfactions of the primary needs or of archetypal wishes, but the reparation of the evils and damages by the technology of yesterday."
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