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Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is. ↗

— Thomas Szasz

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A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong. ↗

— Thomas Szasz

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People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds, it is something one creates. ↗

— Thomas Szasz

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In the animal kingdom, the rule is, eat or be eaten; in the human kingdom, define or be defined. ↗

— Thomas Szasz

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I'm all in favor of the democratic principle that one idiot is as good as one genius, but I draw the line when someone takes the next step and concludes that two idiots are better than one genius. ↗

— Leo Szilard

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Do your work for six years; but in the seventh, go into solitude or among strangers, so that the memory of your friends does not hinder you from being what you have become. ↗

— Leo Szilard

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After every war someone has to tidy up. ↗

— Wislawa Szymborska

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Even the worst book can give us something to think about. ↗

— Wislawa Szymborska

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I usually write for the individual reader -though I would like to have many such readers. There are some poets who write for people assembled in big rooms, so they can live through something collectively. I prefer my reader to take my poem and have a one-on-one relationship with it. ↗

— Wislawa Szymborska

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All the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination. ↗

— Wislawa Szymborska

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