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Quotes by Polish Authors
"Righteous is the one who was able to demonstrate compassion in face of human suffering."
"I have given up trying to be happy. It is no use an leads to nothing."
"A novelist has a specific poetic license which also applies to his own life."
"Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought."
"It was never really my choice to be an action heroine."
"Poverty was an ornament on a learned man like a red ribbon on a white horse."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"In science, we must be interested in things, not in persons."
"Social justice cannot be attained by violence. Violence kills what it intends to create."
"It is not the clear-sighted who rule the world. Great achievements are accomplished in a blessed, warm fog."
"Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas."
"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 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."
"He who is satisfied has never truly craved, and he who craves for the light of God neglects his ease for ardor."
"For I am not so enamoured of my own opinions that I disregard what others may think of them."
"Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself."
"There is a fundamental difference between the Polish experience of the state and the Russian experience. In the Polish experience, the state was always a foreign power. So, to hate the state was a patriotic act."
"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."
"How can a rabbi not live with doubt? The Bible itself is a book of doubt."
"Mathematics is written for mathematicians."
"Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes."
"When man meets an obstacle he can't destroy, he destroys himself."
"The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness."
"My purpose is to have American Jews look away from the success story with which they've cheered themselves up, and to have them remember the classical tradition, whatever it is."
"I learned English, my sixth language at this point, quite quickly."
"I would be a traitor to these poor burned bodies if I came here to talk good fellowship."
"The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness."
"Week after week, the heads of Red Army Intelligence received updates on the Wehrmacht's preparations."
"Moreover, since the sun remains stationary, whatever appears as a motion of the sun is really due rather to the motion of the earth."
"Yet if anyone believes that the earth rotates, surely he will hold that its motion is natural, not violent."
"I can easily conceive, most Holy Father, that as soon as some people learn that in this book which I have written concerning the revolutions of the heavenly bodies, I ascribe certain motions to the Earth, they will cry out at once that I and my theory should be rejected."
"Pouring forth its seas everywhere, then, the ocean envelops the earth and fills its deeper chasms."
"Even better, there were established two separate committees deciding on state film funding."
"More stars in the north are seen not to set, while in the south certain stars are no longer seen to rise."
"It's a fantastic responsibility and a wonderful moment."
"Human material seems to have one major defect: it does not like to be considered merely as human material. It finds it hard to endure the feeling that it must resign itself to passive acceptance of changes introduced from above."
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