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Quotes by Hungarian Authors
"The Hungarian ministry begged the king earnestly to issue orders to all troops and commanders of fortresses in Hungary, enjoining fidelity to the Constitution, and obedience to the ministers of Hungary."
"We were both in love with him. I fell out of love with him, but he didn't."
"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."
"One must do no violence to nature, nor model it in conformity to any blindly formed chimera."
"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."
"Of course language manifests a belief only if we use its words with the implied acceptance of their appositeness."
"As to Magyar, I think that my speech was incorrect, inappropriate."
"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."
"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."
"You must be a power on earth, and must therefore accept all the consequences of this position."
"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."
"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."
"Human beings exercise responsibilities within a social setting and a framework of obligations which transcend the principle of intelligence."
"The criminalization of marijuana did not prevent marijuana from becoming the most widely used illegal substance in the United States and many other countries. But it did result in extensive costs and negative consequences."
"In music one must think with the heart and feel with the brain."
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