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Quotes by Polish Authors
"Though I may deny poets their monopoly on inspiration, I still place them in a select group of Fortune's darlings."
"Look, the hard-line Jewish position is based, to this day, on the idea that the Palestinian Arabs somehow or other will either accept third-class status, or they will pick up and go away. Now, this isn't happening."
"God may forgive your sins, but your nervous system won't."
"The present basic philosophy is nuclear deterrence."
"So I ask the nuclear powers to abandon the out-of-date thinking of the Cold War period and take a fresh look. Above all, I appeal to them to bear in mind the long-term threat that nuclear weapons pose to humankind and to begin action towards their elimination."
"I then remained in Berlin until Dec. 1938, spending my time between pictures at my villa on the Riviera."
"God is of no importance unless He is of supreme importance."
"We regard it as a certainty that the earth, enclosed between poles, is bounded by a spherical surface."
"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."
"Well, Barry, it's your film. So if it rises or falls, you're the man."
"In Europe, there is no television filmmaking legislation that could assist film production because private broadcasters are not interested in supporting Polish film."
"But the nuclear powers still cling tenaciously to their weapons."
"The time has come to formulate guidelines for the ethical conduct of scientist, perhaps in the form of a voluntary Hippocratic Oath."
"Truth of a modest sort I can promise you, and also sincerity. That complete, praiseworthy sincerity which, while it delivers one into the hands of one's enemies, is as likely as not to embroil one with one's friends."
"Let me remind you that nuclear disarmament is not just an ardent desire of the people, as expressed in many resolutions of the United Nations. It is a legal commitment by the five official nuclear states, entered into when they signed the Non-Proliferation Treaty."
"Let the veil of silence fall presently over what happened afterwards. Silence, too, can speak out."
"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."
"To be honest, I really don't like being the sex object."
"I asked God if it was a sin and He didn't say anything."
"Physical comfort has nothing to do with any other comfort."
"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."
"Whether you are sixteen or over sixty, remember, understatement is the rule of a fine makeup artist."
"Get to know other worlds, if only for comparison. I am near, too near for him to dream of me."
"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."
"It is hardly possible to build anything if frustration, bitterness and a mood of helplessness prevail."
"Technology should be an important ingredient. It may be and should be a tool for social development."
"The things I write are for those who are willing to accept a new relationship between the reader and the author."
"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 think anti-Semitism is the meal ticket of the organizations that fight it."
"Bourgeois class domination is undoubtedly an historical necessity, but, so too, the rising of the working class against it. Capital is an historical necessity, but, so too, its grave digger, the socialist proletariat."
"At the entrance, my bare feet on the dirt floor, Here, gusts of heat; at my back, white clouds. I stare and stare. It seems I was called for this: To glorify things just because they are."
"Homelessness is a part of our American system. There should be nothing wrong with this condition as long as the individual is not sentenced to unnecessary suffering and punishment."
"To provide meaningful architecture is not to parody history but to articulate it."
"Freedom only for the members of the government, only for the members of the Party - though they are quite numerous - is no freedom at all."
"Cities are the greatest creations of humanity."
"I hope to have communion with the people, that is the most important thing."
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