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Adam Michnik Quotes

The main difference between the Prague Spring and the Velvet Revolution was that the former was mostly the work of Communist party members and others who wanted to bring about 'socialism with a human face.'

Adam Michnik

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: editor
Nationality: polish
Birth: October 17, 1946

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Work Spring Socialism Face Party

AI don't make a big thing out of my race. If you try to preach, people give you a little sympathy and then they want to get out of the way. So you don't preach; you tell the story.

Jim Brown

People Sympathy Story You Want Way

I eat many different ice creams. I'm not an ice cream snob, although I do think Ben & Jerry's is the best. But I'm happy to eat anybody's ice cream, really. As long as it's good.

Jerry Greenfield

Good Best Happy Think Ice Ice Cream

My mom is an experimental chemist and physicist, so she is a cut-and-dried, nuts-and-bolts kind of woman, and my dad is a theoretical chemist, so we were definitely raised with his philosophical point of view: imaginary numbers and dimensions beyond our own. That's the kind of thing we would talk about.

Andrew Sean Greer

Woman Mom View Point Of View Numbers

I've been forgotten by our Good Lord.

Jeanne Calment

Good Lord Forgotten Been Our

When you have the ball in your hand, you're the most important guy in the whole organization.

Stefon Diggs

Organization You Important Hand Ball

People that create jobs create tax payers, which benefits society as a whole.

Steve Wynn

People Society Create Tax Benefits

The failure of women to have reached positions of leadership has been due in large part to social and professional discrimination.

Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

Leadership Failure Women Professional

Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy.

Milan Kundera

Ambition Enough Lazy Poor Sense

I'm very grateful to all the people of Fresno, to Philip Levine and all the poets before me, and all the farmworkers. I didn't get here by myself.

Juan Felipe Herrera

Myself Grateful People Me Here Get

The more we come out and do good to others, the more our hearts will be purified, and God will be in them.

Swami Vivekananda

Good God Will Others More Out

When I go on Japanese Airlines, I really love it because I like Japanese food.

Phil Collins

Love Food Travel Go Because Like

I don't want to be thought of as somebody who's spiritually ambiguous, but the reality is there's unknown things happening. I'm not ready to point at what they are or what the reason is, but I know they exist.

Shane Carruth

Thought Reality Ready Know Want