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Quotes by Polish Authors
"The old Inquisition had its rack and its thumbscrews and its instruments of torture with iron teeth."
"Amin managed to invite both the US and Soviet ambassadors to his palace at the very same time and then deliberately kept them together in his waiting room."
"I have no dress except the one I wear every day. If you are going to be kind enough to give me one, please let it be practical and dark so that I can put it on afterwards to go to the laboratory."
"But the first the general public learned about the discovery was the news of the destruction of Hiroshima by the atom bomb. A splendid achievement of science and technology had turned malign. Science became identified with death and destruction."
"Therefore, having obtained the opportunity from these sources, I too began to consider the mobility of the earth."
"I don't fret over lost time - I can always use the situations in a novel."
"I remembered the old doctor, - "It would be interesting for science to watch the mental changes of individuals, on the spot." I felt I was becoming scientifically interesting."
"A caricature is putting the face of a joke on the body of a truth."
"From my earliest days I had a passion for science."
"All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind."
"Do you see the story? Do you see anything? It seems to me I am trying to tell you a dream--making a vain attempt, because no relation of a dream can convey the dream-sensation, that commingling of absurdity, surprise, and bewilderment in a tremor of struggling revolt, that notion of being captured by the incredible which is the very essence of dreams..."
"Alas, in 1929 came the Stock Market crash and everything changed and became worrisome. People started practicing conservatism because of financial losses, myself included."
"The Roosevelt enactment of Social Security was a moral revolution in our country: We were assured that we would never reach the very depths of poverty. And to be told, that we are now going to gamble it, on Wall Street, is nonsense!"
"There werethings, he said mournfully, that perhaps could never be told, only hehad lived so much alone that sometimes he forgot--he forgot. The lighthad destroyed the assurance which had inspired him in the distantshadows."
"But when one is young one must see things, gather experience, ideas; enlarge the mind."
"Well, we are very glad that Russia is so close with NATO."
"He was just a word for me. I did not see the man in the name any more than you do. Do you see him? Do you see the story? Do you see anything?"
"Will Smith is young, he's cool and my kids have his CDs."
"But the French writers always had more originality and independence than others, and that regulator, which elsewhere was religion, long since ceased to exist for them."
"Even better, there were established two separate committees deciding on state film funding."
"When smashing monuments, save the pedestals - they always come in handy."
"I studied architecture in New York. So, really I was very moved, like everyone else, to try to contribute something that has that resonance and profundity of it means to all of us."
"Suddenly, the screens were dominated by American entertainment to the extent of something like 95 percent. As a result, audiences turned away from the kinds of films that we used to make."
"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."
"Money changes all the iron rules into rubber bands."
"If a psychiatric and scientific inquiry were to be made upon our rulers, mankind would be appalled at the disclosures."
"Wars generally do not resolve the problems for which they are fought and therefore... prove ultimately futile."
"Two important characteristics of maps should be noticed. A map is not the territory it represents, but, if correct, it has a similar structure to the territory, which accounts for its usefulness."
"In so many and such important ways, then, do the planets bear witness to the earth's mobility."
"You know, this whole thing about Ricky Martin, and how successful that young man is. He's 27, I was 29."
"An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie, for an excuse is a lie guarded."
"So I think that is from the European perspective, for the European future, this engagement can be one of the most important and effective decisions in the last 50 years maybe."
"First of all, we must note that the universe is spherical."
"The Cold War in Africa is one of the darkest, most disgraceful pages in contemporary history, and everybody ought to be ashamed."
"This is the reality of nuclear weapons: they may trigger a world war; a war which, unlike previous ones, destroys all of civilization."
"It is not sex by itself that interests me, but its particular role in American consciousness, and in my own life."
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