Quotes About Lec

#1. An error becomes an error when born as truth.

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#2. The window to the world can be covered by a newspaper.

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#3. Do I have no soul as punishment for not believing in the soul?

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#4. Even the voice of conscience undergoes mutation.

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#5. The moment of recognizing your own lack of talent is a flash of genius.

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#6. Many who had been ahead of their time, had to wait for her in very uncomfortable quarters.

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#7. Puritans should wear fig leaves on their eyes.

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#8. When gossip gets old it becomes a myth.

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#9. A man who is a genius and doesn't know it, probably isn't.

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#10. Do not make gods in your own images.

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#11. At the beginning there was the Word; at the end just the Cliche.

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#12. Oh, to be old again," said the young corpse.

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#13. Where a harsh law rules, people yearn for lawlessness.

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#14. In a war of ideas it is people who get killed.

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#15. Never turn your back on reality. It surrounds you.

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#16. Whenever man begins to doubt himself, he does something so stupid that he is reassured.

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#17. We are all equal before the law, but not before those appointed to applyit.

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#18. He who limps is still walking.

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#19. When reasons are weak, attitudes stiffen.

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#20. Many who tried to enlighten were hanged from the lamppost.

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#21. Who ever asked theses and antitheses if they want to become syntheses?

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#22. The weakest link in a chain is the strongest because it can break it.

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#23. Each snowflake in an avalanche pleads not guilty.

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#24. Even his ignorance is encyclopedic.

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#25. "Oh to be old again," said a young corpse.

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#26. A tired exclamation mark is a question mark.

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#27. Pity that the only way to paradise is in a hearse.

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#28. Every scarecrow has a secret ambition to terrorize.

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#29. All Gods were immortal.

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#30. Never saw the branch you are sittin on, unless they are trying to hang you from it.

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#31. Their bodies were so close together that there was no room for real affection.

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#32. You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.

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#33. Those who put blinders on their eyes should remember that the set also includes bridle and a whip.

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#34. What do I believe? I believe in God, if he exists.

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#35. I am against using death as a punishment. I am also against using it as a reward.

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#36. First of all, I choose the great roles, and if none of these come, I choose the mediocre ones, and if they don't come, I choose the ones that pay the rent.

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#37. It's the priests who have demands, not the gods.

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#38. Even the masochists tell everything when tortured. From sheer gratitude.

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#39. The first condition of immortality is death.

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#40. A fat person lives shorter but eats longer.

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#41. When no wind blows, even the weathervane has character.

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#42. The mob shouts with one big mouth and eats with a thousand little ones.

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#43. Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's; and unto God the things that are God's; and unto human beings, what?

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#44. If one is seeking for Heaven on earth, has slept in geography class.

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#45. Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.

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#46. There were grammatical errors even in his silence.

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#47. Do I believe? God only knows.

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#48. Value your words. Each one may be the last.

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#49. The constitution of a country should not violate the constitutions of its citizens.

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#50. Among giants, try and be a dwarf; among dwarfs, try and be a giant; but among equals, try and be an equal

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#51. You can close your eyes to reality but not to memories.

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#52. Oh, to know God's private address.

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#53. Love of one's country recognizes no frontiers ... of other countries.

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#54. Legends are often destroyed by those in need of its stuff.

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#55. If you are not a psychiatrist, stay away from idiots. They are too stupid to pay a layman for his company.

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#56. Illiterates have to dictate.

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#57. The first requisite for immortality is death.

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#58. Impartiality is not neutrality. It is partiality for justice.

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#59. Some like to understand what they believe in. Others like to believe in what they understand

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#60. Do not ask God the way to heaven; he will show you the hardest one.

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#61. Everything is illusion. Even that last sentence.

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#62. We looked into each other's eyes. I saw myself, she saw herself.

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#63. Never saw off the branch you are on, unless you are being hanged from it.

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#64. All his life there was only one thing Lec was allowed to believe. It had surrounded him, cocooned him, constricted him with the same stifling softness as the layers of insulation around him now. For the first time in his life, Lev feels those bounds around his soul begin to loosen.

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#65. Beyond each corner, new directions lie in wait.

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#66. Be yourself. A horse without the lancer is still a horse; a lancer without the horse is just a man.

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#67. One has to multiply thoughts to the point where there aren't enough policemen to control them

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#68. You will always find some Eskimo ready to instruct the Congolese on how to cope with heatwaves.

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#69. Pants get shiny even on a throne.

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#70. A sodomite got very excited looking at a zoology text. Does this make it pornography?

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#71. Myth is nothing more than ancient gossip.

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#72. If a man who cannot count finds a four-leaf clover, is he entitled to happiness?

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#73. The man who bows before the ruler, shows his behind to the courtiers

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#74. Let him who is without guilt cast the first stone. A trap. Because then he will be no longer without guilt.

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#75. Telling lies does not work in advertising.

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#76. Hay smells different to lovers and horses.

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#77. Satirists, be careful. In the 1931 film by Rene Clair "Vive la Liberte" a song says, "Work is freedom." In 1940 the sign on the gates to Auschwitz said: "Arbeit macht frei.

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#78. The exit is usually where the entrance was.

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#79. We understand everything; that is why we understand nothing.

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#80. How many prison years in the years since Christ!

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#81. Even Einstein had to rely for his time on his clock.

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#82. Does a little fish, swimming though the net's eye, suffer from inferiority complex?

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#83. Do not turn your back on anyone. You may be painted on one side only.

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#84. The only fool bigger than the person who knows it all is the person who argues with him.

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#85. The consumer's side of the coffin lid is never ostentatious.

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#86. Intelligence, in diapers, is invisible. And when it matures, out the window it flies. We have to pounce on it earlier.

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#87. Burning stakes do not lighten the darkness.

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#88. To whom should we marry Freedom, to make it multiply?

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#89. Proverbs contradict each other. That is the wisdom of a nation.

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#90. A sweet thing, perspective - a chance to see your enemies so small.

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#91. Man is fatally slow on the uptake; it always takes him until the next generation to understand what's going on.

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#92. Powerless rage can work miracles.

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#93. To god what is God's, to Caesar what is Caesar's. To humans - what?

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#94. He had a clear conscience. Never used it.

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#95. You can change your faith without changing gods, and vice versa.

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#96. Every bush can burn if you fire it with your imagination.

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#97. Men have slow reflexes. In general it takes several generations later for them to understand.

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#98. Some people drop their wings in order to grow a hump

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#99. Mankind deserves sacrifice - but not of mankind.

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#100. The spirit of the times can haunt even the atheists.

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