"There is a fundamental difference between the Polish experience of the state and the Russian experience. In the Polish experience, the state was always a foreign power. So, to hate the state was a patriotic act."

-- Ryszard Kapuscinski

#Hate Quotes #Patriotic Quotes #Differences Quotes

“That attitude does not exist so much today, but in those days there was a very sharp distinction between basic physics and applied physics. Columbia did not deal with applied physics.”
“Sometimes you think they must have come out of the chimp cages at the Bronx zoo.”
“There are a lot of similarities between music and surfing. There's a rhythm to both of them and with sound waves and ocean waves, you see patterns, plus the breathing is all part of it.”
“Films should be for everybody.”
“The extraordinary is waiting quietly beneath the skin of all that is ordinary.”
“To break out of the chaos of my darkness Into a lucid day is all my will. My words like eyes in night, stare to reach A centre for their light: and my acts thrown To distant places by impatient violence Yet lock together to mould a path of stone Out of my darkness into a lucid day.”
“If at first you don't succeed... so much for skydiving.”

Source : "A Softer World". Webcomic by Joey Comeau, February 7, 2003 - June 1, 2015.
“We forget that this music, music made by my brothers and sisters, is still a baby. It's just beginning. When I think of the possibilities, it makes me smile.”

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