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Quotes by Polish Authors

"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."

"If a psychiatric and scientific inquiry were to be made upon our rulers, mankind would be appalled at the disclosures."

"It's about how to bring together the seemingly contradictory aspects of the memorial, which is about a tragedy and how it changed the world, but also about creating a vital and beautiful city of the 21st century."

"In the first years after the systemic transition, our screens showed American entertainment that had not been available before, or had been available only sporadically."

"An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie, for an excuse is a lie guarded."

"Persons who have been homeless carry within them a certain philosophy of life which makes them apprehensive about ownership."

"Larry wanted us to reposition the tower. We wouldn't, and won't. He's been holding back our fees. We want to get paid. And that's it. It'll get solved and we'll carry on with planning Ground Zero."

"Is a decision made in advance really any kind of choice."

"I had a flight trainer who is one of the biggest and most famous helicopter pilots the world."


"I suppose you all grant that woman is a human being. If she has a right to life she has a right to earn a support for that life. If a human being, she has a right to have her powers and faculties as a human being developed. If developed, she has a right to exercise them."

"There is simply no room for anti-Semitism in a democratic and law-abiding state."


"Readership was high, and very attentive. It was people's only source of knowledge about the world."

"The time has come to formulate guidelines for the ethical conduct of scientist, perhaps in the form of a voluntary Hippocratic Oath."


"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 remember in 1978 meeting two Ugandan captains in the hotel talking Russian. They had been educated in Moscow and since they came from different Ugandan peoples, it was the only way they could understand one another."


"People were really interested in what was going on because of the international context of the Cold War."

"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?"


"There is a lack of critical assessment of the past. But you have to understand that the current ruling elite is actually the old ruling elite. So they are incapable of a self-critical approach to the past."


"When man meets an obstacle he can't destroy, he destroys himself."

"First of all, we must note that the universe is spherical."

"On the one hand, young theatre directors were coming to television theatre, because they wanted to get closer to the cinema, despite having studied and worked for the theatre."

"And you have to remember that I came to America as an immigrant. You know, on a ship, through the Statue of Liberty. And I saw that skyline, not just as a representation of steel and concrete and glass, but as really the substance of the American Dream."

"Moreover, since the sun remains stationary, whatever appears as a motion of the sun is really due rather to the motion of the earth."

"His words - the gift of expression, the bewildering, the iluminating, the most exalted and the most contemptible, the pulsating stream of light or the deceitful flow from the heart of an impenetrable darkness."

"Today, for the first time in history, a Bishop of Rome sets foot on English soil. This fair land, once a distant outpost of the pagan world, has become, through the preaching of the Gospel, a beloved and gifted portion of Christ's vineyard."


"Amin knew that neither West nor East would criticize him for fear that he would support the other side. He felt he was untouchable and he said so openly."

"And still the time, especially in the economy, is very tough, very difficult. It's necessary to be active still, to work, to fight, to make our economy more competitive."

"I made the right decisions, I set everything on the right course, the reforms are going in the right direction."

"This could have occurred nowhere but in England, where men and sea interpenetrate, so to speak-the sea entering into the life of most men, and the men knowing something or everything about the sea, in the way of amusement, of travel, or of bread-winning."

"I argue that the Talmud is about the constant struggle to understand."

"A woman should be like a single flower, not a whole bouquet."
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