Roman Dmowski famous quotes
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The nation becomes the master of its fate not only when it has many good sons, but also when it possesses enough strength to restrain its bad ones.
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To be a Pole does not mean just to speak Polish or to feel close to other Poles, but to value the Polish nation above all else ... A Pole must accept everything Polish, both good and bad, and must accept every period of the nation's history, both strong and weak.
-- Roman Dmowski -
In relations with other nations, there is neither right nor wrong; there is only strength and weakness.
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Wherever we can multiply our forces and our civilizational efforts, absorbing other elements, no law can prohibit us from doing so, as such actions are our duty.
-- Roman Dmowski -
The only salvation for us is to stop being an incoherent, loose mob and to change into a strongly organized, disciplined army.
-- Roman Dmowski
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Let never man be bold enough to say, Thus, and no farther shall my passion stray: The first crime, past, compels us into more, And guilt grows fate, that was but choice, before.
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The person in peak-experiences feels himself, more than other times, to be the responsible, active, creating center of his activities and of his perceptions. He feels more like a prime-mover, more self-determined (rather than caused, determined, helpless, dependent, passive, weak, bossed). He feels himself to be his own boss, fully responsible, fully volitional, with more "free-will" than at other times, master of his fate, an agent.
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One of our most important tasks will be to save future generations from a similar political fate and to maintain for ever watchful in them a knowledge of the menace of Jewry. For this reason alone it is vital that the Passion play be continued at Oberammergau; for never has the menace of Jewry been so convincingly portrayed as in this presentation of what happened in the times of the Romans. There one sees in Pontius Pilate a Roman racially and intellectually so superior, that he stands like a firm, clean rock in the middle of the whole muck and mire of Jewry.
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Wit is artificial; humor is natural. Wit is accidental; humor is inevitable. Wit is born of conscious effort; humor, of the allotted ironies of fate. Wit can be expressed only in language; humor can be developed sufficiently in situation.
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Hey Nana, do you remember the first time we met? I beleive in things like fate. So I think it was fate.
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When you can turn people on their head and shake them and no money falls out, then you know God's saying, "Move on, son."
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Millions of tears have fallen for black sons, brothers, lovers, and friends whose assailants took or maimed their lives and then simply went on their way.
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No blade can puncture the human heart like the well-chosen words of a spiteful son.
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I won't let you close enough to hurt me.
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Moments are history. If you have enough of them, they become a story.
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