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137 Polish Quotes

The analysis of character is the highest human entertainment.
Analysis Character Entertainment Highest
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When you betray somebody else, you also betray yourself.
Also Betray Else Somebody
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I am thankful, of course, for the prize and thankful to God for each story, each idea, each word, each day.

Am Course Day Each
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When I was a little boy, they called me a liar, but now that I am grown up, they call me a writer.

Am Boy Call Grown
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We write not only for children but also for their parents. They, too, are serious children.

Also Children Only Parents
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A story to me means a plot where there is some surprise. Because that is how life is - full of surprises.

Because Full How Life
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We know what a person thinks not when he tells us what he thinks, but by his actions.

Actions He His Know
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What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.

Because Creates Eternity Nature
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Originality is not seen in single words or even in sentences. Originality is the sum total of a man's thinking or his writing.

Even His Man Originality
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The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual - when it begins to ignore the passions, the emotions - it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance.

Actually Becomes Begins Between
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We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
Believe Choice Free Free Will
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For those who are willing to make an effort, great miracles and wonderful treasures are in store.

Effort Great Make Miracles
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The New England conscience doesn't keep you from doing what you shouldn't - it just keeps you from enjoying it.

Conscience Doing England Enjoying
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The second half of the twentieth century is a complete flop.
Century Complete Flop Half
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The greatness of art is not to find what is common but what is unique.

Art Common Find Greatness
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There is great treasure there behind our skull and this is true about all of us. This little treasure has great, great powers, and I would say we only have learnt a very, very small part of what it can do.

About Behind Great Learnt
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A good writer is basically a story teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind.

Basically Good Good Writer Mankind
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Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge.
Great Island Knowledge Little
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Kindness, I've discovered, is everything in life.
Discovered Everything Kindness Life
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Sometimes love is stronger than a man's convictions.
Convictions Love Love Is Man
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The waste basket is the writer's best friend.

Basket Best Best Friend Friend
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I am among those who think that science has great beauty.

Am Among Beauty Great
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Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.

About Curious Ideas Less
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I am one of those who think like Nobel, that humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries.

Am Discoveries Draw Evil
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In science, we must be interested in things, not in persons.

Interested Must Persons Science
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I was taught that the way of progress was neither swift nor easy.

Easy Neither Nor Progress
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After all, science is essentially international, and it is only through lack of the historical sense that national qualities have been attributed to it.

After Attributed Been Essentially
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A scientist in his laboratory is not a mere technician: he is also a child confronting natural phenomena that impress him as though they were fairy tales.

Also Child Confronting Fairy
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I have no dress except the one I wear every day. If you are going to be kind enough to give me one, please let it be practical and dark so that I can put it on afterwards to go to the laboratory.

Afterwards Be Kind Dark Day
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I was only fifteen when I finished my high-school studies, always having held first rank in my class. The fatigue of growth and study compelled me to take almost a year's rest in the country. I then returned to my father in Warsaw, hoping to teach in the free schools.

Almost Always Class Compelled
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You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end, each of us must work for his own improvement and, at the same time, share a general responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think we can be most useful.

Aid Being Better Better World
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Unknown in Paris, I was lost in the great city, but the feeling of living there alone, taking care of myself without any aid, did not at all depress me. If sometimes I felt lonesome, my usual state of mind was one of calm and great moral satisfaction.

Aid Alone Any Calm
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I met Pierre Curie for the first time in the spring of the year 1894... A Polish physicist whom I knew, and who was a great admirer of Pierre Curie, one day invited us together to spend the evening with himself and his wife.

Admirer Day Evening First
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My experiments proved that the radiation of uranium compounds can be measured with precision under determined conditions and that this radiation is an atomic property of the element of uranium.

Atomic Compounds Conditions Determined
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During the course of my research, I had had occasion to examine not only simple compounds, salts and oxides, but also a great number of minerals.

Also Compounds Course Examine
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Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.

Fear Feared Less Life
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The first experiments on the biological properties of radium were successfully made in France, with samples from our laboratory, while my husband was living.
Biological Experiments First France
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In 1903, I finished my doctor's thesis and obtained the degree. At the end of the same year, the Nobel prize was awarded jointly to Becquerel, my husband and me for the discovery of radioactivity and new radioactive elements.

Awarded Degree Discovery Doctor
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In chemical terms, radium differs little from barium; the salts of these two elements are isomorphic, while those of radium are usually less soluble than the barium salts.

Chemical Differs Elements Less
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We should not allow it to be believed that all scientific progress can be reduced to mechanisms, machines, gearings, even though such machinery also has its beauty. Neither do I believe that the spirit of adventure runs any risk of disappearing in our world

Adventure Allow Also Any
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If I see anything vital around me, it is precisely that spirit of adventure, which seems indestructible and is akin to curiosity.

Adventure Anthony Around Curiosity
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When radium was discovered, no one knew that it would prove useful in hospitals. The work was one of pure science. And this is a proof that scientific work must not be considered from the point of view of the direct usefulness of it.

Considered Direct Discovered Hospitals
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All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.

AllMyLife Child Life Like
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Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained.

Above Any Attained Believe
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One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.

Been Done Has-Been Never
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There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.
Down Errors Establishing Hunt
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I have frequently been questioned, especially by women, of how I could reconcile family life with a scientific career. Well, it has not been easy.

Been Career Could Easy
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Those who do not move, do not notice their chains.
Chains Move Notice Those
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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.

Against Bourgeois Capital Class
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Social democracy... is only the advance guard of the proletariat, a small piece of the total working masses; blood from their blood, and flesh from their flesh.

Advance Blood Democracy Flesh
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