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Mankind deserves sacrifice - but not of mankind.


Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

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For Restoration Of Mankind To Be Fulfilled, A Terrible Sacrifice Was Necessary
SUNDAY ADELAJA Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.
STANISLAW JERZY LEC People find life entirely too time-consuming.
STANISLAW JERZY LEC Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.
STANISLAW JERZY LEC Never lie when the truth is more profitable.
STANISLAW JERZY LEC In a war of ideas it is people who get killed.
STANISLAW JERZY LEC Value your words. Each one may be the last.
STANISLAW JERZY LEC Telling lies does not work in advertising.
STANISLAW JERZY LEC First of all, I choose the great roles, and if none of these come, I choose the mediocre ones, and i...
STANISLAW JERZY LEC The pleasure of reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.
STANISLAW JERZY LEC You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
STANISLAW JERZY LEC When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet.
STANISLAW JERZY LEC When smashing monuments, save the pedestals - they always come in handy.
STANISLAW JERZY LEC Whenever man begins to doubt himself, he does something so stupid that he is reassured.
STANISLAW JERZY LEC Thoughts, like fleas, jump from man to man, but they don't bite everybody.
STANISLAW JERZY LEC The first requisite for immortality is death.
STANISLAW JERZY LEC Don't trust the heart, it wants your blood.
STANISLAW JERZY LEC Is it progress if a cannibal uses a fork?
STANISLAW JERZY LEC The window to the world can be covered by a newspaper.
STANISLAW JERZY LEC The weakest link in a chain is the strongest because it can break it.
STANISLAW JERZY LEC No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.
STANISLAW JERZY LEC A sodomite got very excited looking at a zoology text. Does this make it pornography?
STANISLAW JERZY LEC You can close your eyes to reality but not to memories.
STANISLAW JERZY LEC Cannibals prefer those who have no spines.
STANISLAW JERZY LEC Only the dead can be resurrected. It's more difficult with the living.
STANISLAW JERZY LEC I give you bitter pills in sugar coating. The pills are harmless: the poison is in the sugar.
STANISLAW JERZY LEC The weakest link in the chain is also the strongest. It can break the chain.
STANISLAW JERZY LEC Oare omul a ieşit mai repede din cuvânt decât din peşteră?
STANISLAW JERZY LEC Some like to understand what they believe in. Others like to believe in what they understand.
STANISLAW JERZY LEC The only fool bigger than the person who knows it all is the person who argues with him
STANISLAW JERZY LEC A dream will always triumph over reality, once it is given the chance.
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STANISLAW JERZY LEC Every now and then you meet a man whose ignorance is encyclopedic.
STANISLAW JERZY LEC When everything has to be right, something isn't.
STANISLAW JERZY LEC The success of Heine -- to become a world-famous 'unkown poet.'
STANISLAW JERZY LEC To torture a man you have to know his pleasures.
STANISLAW JERZY LEC If a man who cannot count finds a four-leaf clover, is he entitled to happiness?
STANISLAW JERZY LEC You climb to reach the summit, but once there, discover that all roads lead down.
STANISLAW JERZY LEC You have to decide, even to hesitate
STANISLAW JERZY LEC Do not trust people. They are capable of greatness.
STANISLAW JERZY LEC Do not become unbecoming towards mankind, for mankind isn't unbecoming towards the selfish.
JORDAN LEE TYO Mankind fears an evil man but heaven does not.
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JUAN ESLAVA GALáN The Highlanders are Great Thieves
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YUVAL NOAH HARARI Recuerden que los microbios son, junto con la desordenada codicia de los bienes ajenos, el gran moto...
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BEETHOVEN Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind b...
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN It is peculiar to mankind to transcend mankind.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHLEGEL The end of science is not to prove a theory, but to improve mankind.
MANLY HALL If all of Mankind was in a trance, Mankind would be with God.
ALEXIS OCHOA As soon as sacrifice becomes a duty and necessity to mankind. I see no limit to the horizon which op...
ERNEST RENAN As soon as sacrifice becomes a duty and necessity to mankind. I see no limit to the horizon which ...
ERNEST RENAN A large part of mankind is angry not with the sins, but with the sinners.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) Emerging from barbarism is a slow process and as man is , geologically speaking, still very young, h...
THéODORE MONOD Knowledge that does not change behaviour is useless. But knowledge that changes behaviour quickly lo...
YUVAL NOAH HARARI As for me, I prefer truth to goodthink. I feel surer on my ground.
DAVID S. LANDES Ах, век мифов и легенд. Шарлемань, рыцарство, горный Пир...
JULIAN BARNES When a man's instincts are evil, repentance has a short lease and brief is his gratitude towards tho...
KHUSWANT SINGH Ideas and not battles mark the forward progress of mankind.
L. RON HUBBARD A mistake of one man is not the mistake of mankind.
KIM PANTI What then in the last resort are the truths of mankind? They are the irrefutable errors of mankind.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE What then in the last resort are the truths of mankind?--They are the irrefutable errors of mankind.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE May you be of service to mankind.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA We defend and we build a way of life, not for America alone, but for all mankind.
FRANKLIN DELANO ROOSEVELT We defend and we build a way of life, not for America alone, but for all mankind.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT We defend and we build a way of life, not for America alone, but for all of mankind
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT And mankind is naught but a single nation
QURAN We pray that henceforth not only Japan but all mankind may know the blessings of harmony and progres...
SHIGERU YOSHIDA Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind.
JOHN F. KENNEDY If mankind minus one were of one opinion, then mankind is no more justified in silencing the one tha...
JOHN STUART MILL The choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happine...
GEORGE ORWELL I have sacrificed not only my favorite scheme of life, but the softer affections of the heart, and m...
JOHN PAUL JONES The most acute social priority is for individuals to clean up their own mental and emotional messes....
DOC CHILDRE Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for mankind
HORACE MANN Some are weather-wise, some are otherwise.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Any life, no matter how long and complex it may be, is made up of a single moment, the moment in whi...
ALBERT EINSTEIN Little men with little minds and little imaginations go through life in little ruts, smugly resistin...
ZIG ZIGLAR We hold these truths to be self evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by th...
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FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Wicked men obey out of fear; good men, out of love.
ARISTOTLE If out of all mankind one finds a single friend, he has found something more precious than any treas...
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WILLIAM SOMERSET MAUGHAM When it is darkest, men see the stars.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON We are wiser than we know.
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AYN RAND Men are at war with each other because each man is at war with himself.
FRANCIS MEEHAN This is the ultimate end of man, to find the One which is in him; which is his truth, which is his s...
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