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Quotes by Polish Authors
"In science, we must be interested in things, not in persons."
"A novelist has a specific poetic license which also applies to his own life."
"Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself."
"Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought."
"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."
"You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience."
"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."
"There are no ugly women, only lazy ones."
"Emancipation from every kind of bondage is my principle. I go for recognition of human rights, without distinction of sect, party, sex, or color."
"It was never really my choice to be an action heroine."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"Righteous is the one who was able to demonstrate compassion in face of human suffering."
"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."
"Social justice cannot be attained by violence. Violence kills what it intends to create."
"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."
"How can a rabbi not live with doubt? The Bible itself is a book of doubt."
"Poverty was an ornament on a learned man like a red ribbon on a white horse."
"It's a fantastic responsibility and a wonderful moment."
"Of all things visible, the highest is the heaven of the fixed stars."
"You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects."
"Mathematics is written for mathematicians."
"All that I can tell you is, that I used my humble powers to the uttermost, and raised my voice in behalf of Human Rights in general, and the elevation and Rights of Woman in particular, nearly all my life."
"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."
"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."
"The historical experience of socialist countries has sadly demonstrated that collectivism does not do away with alienation but rather increases it, adding to it a lack of basic necessities and economic inefficiency."
"Stupidity is also a gift of God, but one mustn't misuse it."
"The profession of the writer has its thorns about which the reader does not dream."
"This means that the only function of nuclear weapons, while they exist, is to deter a nuclear attack."
"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."
"I was taught that the way of progress was neither swift nor easy."
"Finally we shall place the Sun himself at the center of the Universe."
"I had a flight trainer who is one of the biggest and most famous helicopter pilots the world."
"The more that social democracy develops, grows, and becomes stronger, the more the enlightened masses of workers will take their own destinies, the leadership of their movement, and the determination of its direction into their own hands."
"There is simply no room for anti-Semitism in a democratic and law-abiding state."
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