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A candidate is a person who gets money from the rich and votes from the poor to protect them from each other.
Stanislaw Lem
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Stanislaw Lem
Age: 84 †
Born: 1921
Born: September 12
Died: 2006
Died: March 27
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Burn with that consuming fire of objectivity that forces a man to renew efforts that are doomed to failure.
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...it is easy not to believe in monsters, considerably more difficult to escape their dread and loathsome clutches.
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Our ability to adapt and therefore to accept everything is one of our greatest dangers. Creatures that are completely flexible, changeable, can have no fixed morality.
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The fate of a single man can be rich with significance, that of a few hundred less so, but the history of thousands and millions of men does not mean anything at all, in any adequate sense of the word.
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That human existence should repeat itself, well and good, but that it should repeat itself like a hackneyed tune, or a record a drunkard keeps playing as he feeds coins into the jukebox...
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Where do consequences lead? Depends on the escort.
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Is a mountain only a huge stone? Is a planet an enormous mountain?
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