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Quotes by Polish Authors
"Stupidity is also a gift of God, but one mustn't misuse it."
"A novelist has a specific poetic license which also applies to his own life."
"The planned sit-down reception is an artificial forum where one is presented with a limited number of persons with whom he can hold a conversation."
"Emancipation from every kind of bondage is my principle. I go for recognition of human rights, without distinction of sect, party, sex, or color."
"A mathematician is a person who can find analogies between theorems; a better mathematician is one who can see analogies between proofs and the best mathematician can notice analogies between theories."
"Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself."
"In science, we must be interested in things, not in persons."
"Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought."
"We are told that the possession of nuclear weapons - in some cases even the testing of these weapons - is essential for national security. But this argument can be made by other countries as well."
"You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience."
"Those who know that the consensus of many centuries has sanctioned the conception that the earth remains at rest in the middle of the heavens as its center, would, I reflected, regard it as an insane pronouncement if I made the opposite assertion that the earth moves."
"Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes."
"The profession of the writer has its thorns about which the reader does not dream."
"All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses."
"Pouring forth its seas everywhere, then, the ocean envelops the earth and fills its deeper chasms."
"Of all things visible, the highest is the heaven of the fixed stars."
"I write for a certain sphere of readers in the United States who on average watch seven and a half hours of multichannel television per day."
"How can a rabbi not live with doubt? The Bible itself is a book of doubt."
"Social justice cannot be attained by violence. Violence kills what it intends to create."
"If God is pleased in making you sick and unhappy, I hate God."
"There are no ugly women, only lazy ones."
"Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained."
"Finally we shall place the Sun himself at the center of the Universe."
"You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects."
"It was never really my choice to be an action heroine."
"Righteous is the one who was able to demonstrate compassion in face of human suffering."
"You are priests, not social or political leaders. Let us not be under the illusion that we are serving the Gospel through an exaggerated interest in the wide field of temporal problems."
"I was taught that the way of progress was neither swift nor easy."
"Long before the terrifying potential of the arms race was recognized, there was a widespread instinctive abhorrence of nuclear weapons, and a strong desire to get rid of them."
"Mathematics is written for mathematicians."
"If you allow one single germ, one single seed of slavery to remain in the soil of America... that germ will spring up, that noxious weed will thrive, and again stifle the growth, wither the leaves, blast the flowers and poison the fair fruits of freedom."
"The earth also is spherical, since it presses upon its center from every direction."
"For I am not so enamoured of my own opinions that I disregard what others may think of them."
"It's a fantastic responsibility and a wonderful moment."
"I learned English, my sixth language at this point, quite quickly."
"Gossip is what no one claims to like, but everybody enjoys."
"So I think that I can say, as the President of Poland, we're proud that I am coming from Poland, which is different and what's more important, much better than before."
"Have no fear of moving into the unknown. Simply step out fearlessly knowing that I am with you, therefore no harm can befall you; all is very, very well. Do this in complete faith and confidence."
"This means that the only function of nuclear weapons, while they exist, is to deter a nuclear attack."
"Therefore I would not have it unknown to Your Holiness, the the only thing which induced me to look for another way of reckoning the movements of the heavenly bodies was that I knew that mathematicians by no means agree in their investigation thereof."
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