"Poland didn't experience a groundbreaking moment in 1989. We didn't storm the secret police building. The squads of secret police, with all their political baggage, remained unscathed."

-- Wladyslaw Bartoszewski

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“A farmer travelling with his load Picked up a horseshoe on the road, And nailed if fast to his barn door, That luck might down upon him pour; That every blessing known in life Might crown his homestead and his wife, And never any kind of harm Descend upon his growing farm.”

Source : James Thomas Fields, “The Lucky Horseshoe”
“I made a pact with myself a long time ago: Never watch anything stupider than you. It's helped me a lot.”
“Our limited mind is our enemy and our unlimited mind is our best friend. When you become a slave of the mind, it will limit you. When you use it, it will bring you the whole universe.”
“We have to wake up early and make songs everyday. I run my record label. You work at hours where your body isn't designed to work. But it's fun.”
“Willard Gibbs did for statistical mechanics and for thermodynamics what Laplace did for celestial mechanics and Maxwell did for electrodynamics, namely, made his field a well-nigh finished theoretical structure.”
“The way you cut your meat reflects the way you live.”
“No matter how developed you are in any other area of your life, no matter what you say you believe, no matter how sophisticated or enlightened you think you are, how you eat tells all.”
“I have come to the conclusion that there is nothing good that doesn't have bad consequences and nothing bad that doesn't have good consequences.”

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