"A dream will always triumph over reality, once it is given the chance."

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Source : Stanislaw Lem (1985). “The Futurological Congress: From the Memoirs of Ijon Tichy”, p.95, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Stanislaw Lem

#Dream Quotes #Reality Quotes #Triumph Quotes

“Walnuts have a shell, and they have a kernel. Religions are the same. They have an essence, but then they have a protective coating. This is not the only way to put it. But it's my way. So the kernels are the same. However, the shells are different.”
“The luxury of today is the necessity of tomorrow. Every advance first comes into being as the luxury of a few rich people, only to become, after a time, an indispensable necessity taken for granted by everyone. Luxury consumption provides industry with the stimulus to discover and introduce new, things. It is one of the dynamic factors in our economy. To it we owe the progressive innovations by which the standard of living of all strata of the population has been gradually raised.”
“Those who know that the consensus of many centuries has sanctioned the conception that the earth remains at rest in the middle of the heavens as its center, would, I reflected, regard it as an insane pronouncement if I made the opposite assertion that the earth moves.”

Source : Nicolaus Copernicus (1978). “On the revolutions”
“I sometimes mistake my typewriter for my teeth, because the more I bite the more my column will be read.”
“I don't remember being a child, and that's why I think I'm so child-like now in my unending curiosity and approach to life.”
“When someone cares... it is easier to speak, it is easier to listen, it is easier to play, it is easier to work. When someone cares it is easier to laugh.”

Source : Susan Polis Schutz (1974). “Peace flows from the sky”, Blue Mountain Press
“I don't like anything that scares me, and I prefer to face it head on and get over it. Anyone who says they're not scared is a fool, a liar or both. I just don't want that fear in my stomach to be part of my life, so I work to eliminate it.”
“Jazz is about freedom within discipline. Usually a dictatorship like in Russia and Germany will prevent jazz from being played because it just seemed to represent freedom, democracy and the United States.”

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