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Quotes by Polish Authors

"I do not say anything from jealousy."
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Anna Held
"I do not say anything from jealousy."
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"Even better, there were established two separate committees deciding on state film funding."
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Andrzej Wajda
"Even better, there were established two separate committees deciding on state film funding."
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"More stars in the north are seen not to set, while in the south certain stars are no longer seen to rise."
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Nicolaus Copernicus
"More stars in the north are seen not to set, while in the south certain stars are no longer seen to rise."
"Evidently the merit depends on the result of the work."
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Henryk Sienkiewicz
"Evidently the merit depends on the result of the work."
"I have sympathy for young people, for their growing pains, but I balk when these growing pains are pushed into the foreground, when you make these young people the only vehicles of life's wisdom."
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Wislawa Szymborska
"I have sympathy for young people, for their growing pains, but I balk when these growing pains are pushed into the foreground, when you make these young people the only vehicles of life's wisdom."
"If a psychiatric and scientific inquiry were to be made upon our rulers, mankind would be appalled at the disclosures."
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Alfred Korzybski
"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."
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Daniel Libeskind
"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."
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Andrzej Wajda
"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."
"I often wonder if we could not solve the world's problems on a similar basis of harmony."
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Artur Rodzinski
"I often wonder if we could not solve the world's problems on a similar basis of harmony."
"On the one hand, we had great filmic spectacles that brought in big audiences, adults as well as primary and secondary school students. On the other hand, there were attempts to create contemporary Polish film."
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Andrzej Wajda
"On the one hand, we had great filmic spectacles that brought in big audiences, adults as well as primary and secondary school students. On the other hand, there were attempts to create contemporary Polish film."
"An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie, for an excuse is a lie guarded."
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Pope John Paul II
"An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie, for an excuse is a lie guarded."
Lie,
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"Persons who have been homeless carry within them a certain philosophy of life which makes them apprehensive about ownership."
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Jerzy Kosinski
"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."
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Daniel Libeskind
"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."
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Wislawa Szymborska
"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."
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Izabella Scorupco
"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."
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Ernestine L. Rose
"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."
"If words are not things, or maps are not the actual territory, then, obviously, the only possible link between the objective world and the linguistic world is found in structure, and structure alone."
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Alfred Korzybski
"If words are not things, or maps are not the actual territory, then, obviously, the only possible link between the objective world and the linguistic world is found in structure, and structure alone."
"There is simply no room for anti-Semitism in a democratic and law-abiding state."
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Aleksander Kwasniewski
"There is simply no room for anti-Semitism in a democratic and law-abiding state."
"I am one of those who think like Nobel, that humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries."
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Marie Curie
"I am one of those who think like Nobel, that humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries."
"Readership was high, and very attentive. It was people's only source of knowledge about the world."
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Ryszard Kapuscinski
"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."
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Joseph Rotblat
"The time has come to formulate guidelines for the ethical conduct of scientist, perhaps in the form of a voluntary Hippocratic Oath."
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"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."
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Rosa Luxemburg
"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."
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Ryszard Kapuscinski
"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."
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Ryszard Kapuscinski
"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?"
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Joseph Conrad
"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."
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Ryszard Kapuscinski
"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."
"It turned out that the country was helpless in the face of a new reality."
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Andrzej Wajda
"It turned out that the country was helpless in the face of a new reality."
"Of course, Hollywood is still making some excellent pictures which reflect the great artistry that made Hollywood famous throughout the world, but these films are exceptions, judging from box office returns and press reviews."
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Pola Negri
"Of course, Hollywood is still making some excellent pictures which reflect the great artistry that made Hollywood famous throughout the world, but these films are exceptions, judging from box office returns and press reviews."
"When man meets an obstacle he can't destroy, he destroys himself."
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Ryszard Kapuscinski
"When man meets an obstacle he can't destroy, he destroys himself."
"Agitate! Agitate! Ought to be the motto of every reformer. Agitation is the opposite of stagnation - the one is life, the other death."
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Ernestine L. Rose
"Agitate! Agitate! Ought to be the motto of every reformer. Agitation is the opposite of stagnation - the one is life, the other death."
"First of all, we must note that the universe is spherical."
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Nicolaus Copernicus
"First of all, we must note that the universe is spherical."
"Slavery and freedom cannot exist together."
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Ernestine L. Rose
"Slavery and freedom cannot exist together."
"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."
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Andrzej Wajda
"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."
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Daniel Libeskind
"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."
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Nicolaus Copernicus
"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."
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Joseph Conrad
"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."
"I never work out. I think it is boring, so I run."
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Izabella Scorupco
"I never work out. I think it is boring, so I run."
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"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."
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Pope John Paul II
"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."
"A trait which differentiated New York from European cities was the incredible freedom and ease in which life, including sexual life, could be carried on, on many levels."
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Jerzy Kosinski
"A trait which differentiated New York from European cities was the incredible freedom and ease in which life, including sexual life, could be carried on, on many levels."
"After every war someone has to tidy up."
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Wislawa Szymborska
"After every war someone has to tidy up."
War,
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"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."
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Ryszard Kapuscinski
"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."
"People look at me and look, but I do not care."
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Anna Held
"People look at me and look, but I do not care."
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"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."
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Aleksander Kwasniewski
"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."
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Lech Walesa
"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."
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Joseph Conrad
"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."
"The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I se it, is service to a fellow human being."
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Lech Walesa
"The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I se it, is service to a fellow human being."
"I argue that the Talmud is about the constant struggle to understand."
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Arthur Hertzberg
"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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Anna Held
"A woman should be like a single flower, not a whole bouquet."
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"I'll tell you what colonial experience is."
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Ryszard Kapuscinski
"I'll tell you what colonial experience is."
"Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God."
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Abraham Joshua Heschel
"Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God."
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