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Quotes by Polish Authors
"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."
"I remember staying to look at it for a long time, as one would linger within reach of a consoling whisper. The sky was pearly grey. It was one of those overcast days so rare in the tropics, in which memories crowd upon one, memories of other shores, of other faces."
"The nation is a community. Community of individuals, community of generations."
"More stars in the north are seen not to set, while in the south certain stars are no longer seen to rise."
"Poets yearn, of course, to be published, read, and understood, but they do little, if anything, to set themselves above the common herd and the daily grind."
"Persons who have been homeless carry within them a certain philosophy of life which makes them apprehensive about ownership."
"If you compare my character to the others, they were sexy with designer clothes. I had the nerdy outfit."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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 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."
"To provide meaningful architecture is not to parody history but to articulate it."
"We have become aware of the responsibility for our attitude towards the dark pages in our history. We have understood that bad service is done to the nation by those who are impelling to renounce that past."
"You have nothing that the humblest worker has not a right to have also."
"I wish to please the people, but I want to make them cry, perhaps. There, I have said it."
"Do not be misled by the fact that you are at liberty and relatively free; that for the moment you are not under lock and key: you have simply been granted a reprieve."
"Every age is fed on illusions, lest men should renounce life early and the human race come to an end."
"To be in the EU, it means to have same rules of... for economy, for social life, to be together in the majority of European countries."
"In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed."
"He killed his enemies because he was afraid they would kill him. Amin ordered entire tribes to be put to death, because he feared they would rebel."
"I don't fret over lost time - I can always use the situations in a novel."
"Someone knocks at the door of an apartment to borrow salt or sugar, people run into each other in the elevator, and in this way become inscribed in the spectator's memory."
"I look back into past history, the stored experiences or products of the imagination. I look no further forward than the evening."
"Every man is responsible only for his own acts. The sons do not inherit the sins of the fathers. But can we say: that was long ago, they were different?"
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