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Quotes by Polish Authors
"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."
"Even better, there were established two separate committees deciding on state film funding."
"Our part of Poland was under Russian occupation from 1939-1941."
"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."
"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."
"The United Nations organization has proclaimed 1979 as the Year of the Child. Are the children to receive the arms race from us as a necessary inheritance?"
"So I think that is one of the reasons we can face some regional problems, which are very difficult, very dramatic and is necessary to have instruments to solve these problems. NATO is such instrument."
"Amin hid nothing. Everybody knew everything. Yet the American Senate only introduced a resolution breaking off trade with Amin three months before his overthrow."
"I would be a traitor to these poor burned bodies if I came here to talk good fellowship."
"I was the good Bond girl, but I wanted to have the dresses and the high heels. I wanted the funky, sexy name."
"But the nuclear powers still cling tenaciously to their weapons."
"All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind."
"I established a certain standard of behavior, that, during my playing, there must be no talking."
"Poverty was an ornament on a learned man like a red ribbon on a white horse."
"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."
"I learned the business in about two months, and then made as much as the others, and was consequently doing quite well when the factory burned down, destroying all our machines - 150 of them. This was very hard on the girls who had paid for their machines."
"She had her reward! - that reward of which no enemie could deprive her, which no slanders could make less precious - the eternal reward of knowing that she had done her duty."
"In so many and such important ways, then, do the planets bear witness to the earth's mobility."
"Persons who have been homeless carry within them a certain philosophy of life which makes them apprehensive about ownership."
"I hope to have communion with the people, that is the most important thing."
"Mathematics is the most beautiful and most powerful creation of the human spirit."
"They trespassed upon my thoughts. They were intruders whose knowledge of life was to me an irritating pretense, because I felt so sure they could not possibly know the things I knew. Their bearing, which was simply the bearing of commonplace individuals going about their business in the assurance of perfect safety, was offensive to me like the outrageous flauntings of folly in the face of a danger it is unable to comprehend. I had no particular desire to enlighten them, but I had some difficulty in restraining myself from laughing in their faces, so full of stupid importance."
"Only through the conscious action of the working masses in city and country can it be brought to life, only through the people's highest intellectual maturity and inexhaustible idealism can it be brought safely through all storms and find its way to port."
"I slide my arm from under the sleeper's head and it is numb, full of swarming pins, on the tip of each, waiting to be counted, the fallen angels sit."
"At the same time, television theatre became more visibly active."
"When smashing monuments, save the pedestals - they always come in handy."
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