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“Hay smells different to lovers and horses.”

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p, 125
Unkempt Thoughts (1957)

“Is it progress if a cannibal uses knife and fork?”

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Czy jeżeli ludożerca je widelcem i nożem to postęp?
This inspired the title for Cannibals with Forks : The Triple Bottom Line of 21st Century Business (1998) by John Elkington
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“Those who are ahead of their time often have to wait for it in uncomfortable quarters.”

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As quoted in Power for the World (2010) by Wolfgang Palz, Foreword, p. xxi

“No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.”

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Żaden płatek śniegu nie czuje się odpowiedzialny za lawinę.
More Unkempt Thoughts (1964)

“There were grammatical errors even in his silence.”

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Nawet w jego milczeniu były błędy językowe.
Variant translation: Even in his silence were grammatical errors.
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“Optimists and pessimists differ only on the date of the end of the world.”

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p, 125
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“In a war of ideas it is people who get killed.”

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Unkempt Thoughts (1957), p. 21, http://books.google.com/books?id=NTtiAAAAMAAJ&q;=%22In+a+war+of+ideas+it+is+people+who+get+killed%22&pg;=PA21#v=onepage

“When smashing monuments, save the pedestals. They always come in handy.”

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Burząc pomniki, oszczędzajcie cokoły. Zawsze mogą się przydać.
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“Do not ask God the way to heaven; he will show you the hardest one.”

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Unkempt Thoughts (1957), p. 27

“When everything has to be right, something isn't.”

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Unkempt Thoughts (1957), p. 157

“When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet.”

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Gdy z radości podskoczysz do góry, uważaj, by ci ktoś ziemi spod nóg nie usunął. <sup> http://books.google.com/books?id=IjpiAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA98&q=%22Gdy+z+rado%C5%9Bci+podskoczysz+do+g%C3%B3ry+uwa%C5%BCaj+by+ci+kto%C5%9B+ziemi+spod+n%C3%B3g+nie+usun%C4%85%C5%82%22&pg=PA134#v=onepage</sup> http://books.google.com/books?id=NTtiAAAAMAAJ&q;=%22When+you+jump+for+joy+beware+that+no+one+moves+the+ground+from+beneath+your+feet%22&pg;=PA150#v=onepage]</sup
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“All is in the hands of Man. Therefore you should wash them often.”

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Wszystko jest w rękach człowieka. Dlatego należy je często myć.
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“Thoughts, like fleas, jump from man to man, but they don't bite everybody.”

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p, 125
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“Open Sesame — I want to get out.”

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http://books.google.com/books?id=NTtiAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Open+Sesame%22+%22want+to+get+out%22&pg=PA160#v=onepage p. 160
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“The moment of recognizing your own lack of talent is a flash of genius.”

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Unkempt Thoughts (1957), p. 116

“All of our separate fictions add up to joint reality.”

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Unkempt Thoughts (1957), p. 93; also p. 21

“Satirists, be careful. In the 1931 film by René 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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“Do not trust people. They are capable of greatness.”

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More Unkempt Thoughts (1964)

“He who had dug his own grave
looks attentively
at the gravedigger's work,
but not pedantically:
for this one
digs a grave
not for himself.”

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"He who had dug his own grave", from To Abel and Cain, commemorating his escape from the Nazis by his 1943 killing of an SS guard who had been assigned to watch as he dug his own grave, as quoted in "10 Amazing Ways People Survived The Holocaust" by Alan Boyle at Listverse (9 November 2014) http://listverse.com/2014/11/09/10-amazing-ways-people-survived-the-holocaust/