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Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
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Which one of these four quotes is attributed to Stanislaw Jerzy Lec?
→ To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart and a free mind.
→ Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
→ When gossip gets old, it becomes a myth.
→ Whoever is happy will make others happy too.
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→ Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.
→ The future must be constantly summoned from non-existence; the past comes by itself.
→ The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.
→ A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it.
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→ All is in your hands; therefore, wash them frequently.
→ Football is a game played with arms, legs and shoulders but mostly from the neck up.
→ You attract what you need like a lover.
→ Never say you know the last word about any human heart.
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One of these may be attributed to Stanislaw Jerzy Lec. Which one?
→ If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
→ It's stifling in here. Please open the windows. Let those outside feel it too.
→ I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.
→ Boredom, after all, is a form of criticism.
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Which one of these belongs to Stanislaw Jerzy Lec?
→ The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane.
→ A wounded tyrant bleeds with other people's blood.
→ A man is known by the company his mind keeps.
→ Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
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→ Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.
→ A hospital bed is a parked taxi with the meter running.
→ We boil at different degrees.
→ In reality, things are not like they really are.
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Guess which of these quotes is attributed to Stanislaw Jerzy Lec.
→ Be sincere; be brief; be seated.
→ He who wants to get to the source must swim against the current.
→ Fires can't be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks.
→ The man who grasps principles can successfully select his own methods. The man who tries methods, ignoring principles, is sure to have trouble.
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One of the following quotations belongs to Stanislaw Jerzy Lec. Which one?
→ The earth laughs in flowers.
→ Don't trust the heart, it wants your blood.
→ Providence protects children and idiots. I know because I have tested it.
→ A good vacation is over when you begin to yearn for your work.
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→ Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.
→ There are grammatical errors even in his silence.
→ There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.
→ If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.
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→ Cannibals prefer those who have no spines.
→ It is a very high goal which, with our weak powers, we can reach only very inadequately, but which gives a sure foundation to our aspirations and valuations.
→ One advantage of talking to yourself is that you know at least somebody's listening.
→ Make your mistakes, take your chances, look silly, but keep on going. Don’t freeze up.
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→ What you are will show in what you do.
→ Something unknown is doing we don't know what.
→ Only the dead can be resurrected. It's more difficult with the living.
→ To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!
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Pick the one quotation belonging to Stanislaw Jerzy Lec.
→ I think all great innovations are built on rejections.
→ Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.
→ I can write faster than anyone who can write better, and I can write better than anyone who can write faster.
→ The first condition of immortality is death.
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Which one should be attributed to Stanislaw Jerzy Lec?
→ The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.
→ I have nothing to declare except my genius.
→ Sometimes you have to be silent to be heard.
→ Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.
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→ The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.
→ Behind every successful man is a woman, behind her is his wife.
→ Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.
→ A little kindness from person to person is better than a vast love for all humankind.
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→ The moment when you recognize your own lack of talent is your flash of genius.
→ Only the dead can be resurrected. It's more difficult with the living.
→ There are two kinds of fools. One says, “This is old, therefore it is good.” The other says, “This is new, therefore it is better.”
→ Time is the great legalizer, even in the field of morals.
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Choose which quotation belongs to Stanislaw Jerzy Lec.
→ Thoughts, like fleas, jump from man to man, but they don't bite everyone.
→ Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now; the place to be happy is here; and the way to be happy is to make others happy.
→ One can survive everything nowadays except death.
→ Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.
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→ A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.
→ It’s the high priests that issue demands, not the gods they serve.
→ When I give a lecture, I accept that people will look at their watches. What I do not tolerate is when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
→ We owe to our families both the ideas that we live by and the diseases that will one day claim our lives.
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→ The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.
→ Is it progress if a cannibal uses knife and fork?
→ Put all your eggs in one basket, and then watch that basket.
→ Man knows that the world is not made on a human scale, and he wishes that it were.
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One of the following quotes belongs to Stanislaw Jerzy Lec. Pick one.
→ Do not ask God the way to heaven; he will show you the hardest one.
→ It’s a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it’s a depression when you lose yours.
→ A mixture of admiration and pity is one of the surest recipes for affection.
→ Nobody sees a flower — really — it is so small — we haven't time — and to see takes time, like to have a friend takes time...
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→ The weakest link in a chain is the strongest because it can break it.
→ Beyond each corner new directions lie in wait.
→ A horse without the lancer is still a horse; a lancer without the horse is just a man.
→ Society is founded upon cloth.
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Which one of these four quotes is attributed to Stanislaw Jerzy Lec?
→ The weakest link in a chain is the strongest because it can break it.
→ Beyond each corner new directions lie in wait.
→ Society is founded upon cloth.
→ A burden in the bush is worth two on your hands.
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Pick the quote attributed to Stanislaw Jerzy Lec.
→ The weakest link in a chain is the strongest because it can break it.
→ Beyond each corner new directions lie in wait.
→ A horse without the lancer is still a horse; a lancer without the horse is just a man.
→ A burden in the bush is worth two on your hands.
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→ The window to the world can be covered by a newspaper.
→ If people don’t want to come, nothing will stop them.
→ Hell is paved with good samaritans.
→ Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die.
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One of these may be attributed to Stanislaw Jerzy Lec. Which one?
→ There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.
→ You can close your eyes to reality but not to memories.
→ You may give gifts without caring, but you can't care without giving.
→ It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
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→ Now and then there is a person born who is so unlucky that he runs into accidents which started out to happen to somebody else.
→ Life is a maze in which we take the wrong turning before we have learned to walk.
→ On every summit you are on the brink of an abyss.
→ The awful penalty of success is the haunting dread of subsequent failure.
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→ What ever the mind of a man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
→ To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
→ Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
→ People don't necessarily want to live forever; they just don't want to die.
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Guess which of these quotes is attributed to Stanislaw Jerzy Lec.
→ Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
→ Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.
→ Should I ever develop greater willpower, I’ll be able to overpower it.
→ Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.
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One of the following quotations belongs to Stanislaw Jerzy Lec. Which one?
→ If a dog jumps in your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer.
→ In reality, time stands still; it is we who are moving in the wrong direction.
→ Flowers grow out of dark moments.
→ If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. If they don't, they never were.
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→ People find life entirely too time-consuming.
→ Whenever I get the urge to exercise, I lie down until the feeling passes away.
→ In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.
→ Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.
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→ Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
→ Bowed by the weight of centuries he leans upon his hoe and gazes on the ground, the emptiness of ages in his face, and on his back the burden of the world.
→ Illiterates have to dictate.
→ All men are equal before fish.
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→ Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.
→ Don't cut the branch you are sitting on, unless they’re trying to hang you from it.
→ We cannot be sure of having something to live for unless we are willing to die for it.
→ My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.
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→ We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.
→ Impartiality is not neutrality. It is partiality for justice.
→ What people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirely different things.
→ Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
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→ Many of life's failures are experienced by people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
→ To suffer heartaches and not be a poet? Whatever for?
→ An idea is salvation by imagination.
→ When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.
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→ When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet.
→ The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.
→ For every laugh, there should be a tear.
→ If you can’t fly then run, if you can’t run then walk, if you can’t walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.
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→ I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex.
→ Optimists and pessimists only disagree on the date of the end of the world.
→ The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.
→ Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth.
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→ I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
→ When smashing monuments, save the pedestals. One day they'll come in handy.
→ Take away love and our earth is a tomb.
→ To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one's responsibility as a free man.
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→ Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.
→ Never lie when the truth is more profitable.
→ The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain.
→ If it was raining soup, the Irish would go out with forks.
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→ If you want all the conversation you can handle, put a bandage on your forehead.
→ An empty envelope that is sealed contains a secret.
→ This is a free country. Folks have a right to send me letters, and I have a right not to read them.
→ There are two things that are more difficult than making an after-dinner speech: climbing a wall which is leaning toward you and kissing a girl who is leaning away from you.
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One of the following quotes belongs to Stanislaw Jerzy Lec. Pick one.
→ We should all be concerned about the future because we will have to spend the rest of our lives there.
→ Many a man that could rule a hundred million strangers with an iron hand is careful to take off his shoes in the front hallway when he comes home late at night.
→ The town was so small, when I went to the public library there was a sign on the door that said: 'The book is out.'
→ Don't forget that the bacteria watch us from the other end of the microscope.
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