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If a man who can’t count find...

If a man who can’t count finds a four leaf clover, is he lucky?

Stanislav Lem 110 quotes

Is a mountain only a huge sto...

Is a mountain only a huge stone? Is a planet an enormous mountain?

Stanislav Lem 110 quotes

I do not like the way people ...

I do not like the way people use the more and more magnificent fruits of technology to their filthy deeds.

Stanislav Lem 110 quotes

Good books tell the truth, ev...

Good books tell the truth, even when they're about things that never have been and never will be. They're truthful in a different way

Stanislav Lem 110 quotes

Each civilization may choose ...

Each civilization may choose one of two roads to travel, that is, either fret itself to death, or pet itself to death. And in the course of doing one or the other, it eats its way into the Universe, turning cinders and flinders of stars into toilet seats, pegs, gears, cigarette holders and pillowcases, and it does this because, unable to fathom the Universe, it seeks to change that Fathomlessness into Something Fathomable.

Stanislav Lem 110 quotes

The whole plan hinged upon th...

The whole plan hinged upon the natural curiosity of potatoes.

Stanislav Lem 110 quotes

So one must be resigned to be...

So one must be resigned to being a clock that measures the passage of time, now out of order, now repaired, and whose mechanism generates despair and love as soon as its maker sets it going? Are we to grow used to the idea that every man relives ancient torments, which are all the more profound because they grow comic with repetition? That human existence should repeat itself, well and good, but that it should repeat itself like a hackneyed tune, or a record a drunkard keeps playing as he feeds coins into the jukebox.

Stanislav Lem 110 quotes

I don't resist progress, but ...

I don't resist progress, but I have a growing feeling that mankind uses it mostly for disgraceful purposes.

Stanislav Lem 110 quotes

The number of one's possible ...

The number of one's possible fantasies is inversely proportional to the amount of one's liquid assets. For him who has everything dreams are no longer possible.

Stanislav Lem 110 quotes

Cancel me not - for what then...

Cancel me not - for what then shall remain? Abscissas, some mantissas, modules, modes, A root or two, a torus and a node: The inverse of my verse, a null domain.

Stanislav Lem 110 quotes

The only writers who have any...

The only writers who have any peace are the ones who don't write. And there are some like that. They wallow in a sea of possibilities. To express a thought, you first have to limit it, and that means kill it. Every word I speak robs me of a thousand others, and every line I write means giving up another.

Stanislav Lem 110 quotes

Psychoanalytic doctrine revea...

Psychoanalytic doctrine reveals the pig in man, a pig saddled with a conscience; the disastrous result is that the pig is uncomfortable beneath that pious rider, and the rider fares no better in the situation, since his endeavor is not only to tame the pig, but also to render it invisible.

Stanislav Lem 110 quotes

The first 90% of the job take...

The first 90% of the job takes 90% of the time. The remaining 10% of the job requires another 90% of the time. The first condition of immortality is death.

Stanislav Lem 110 quotes

How do you expect to communic...

How do you expect to communicate with the ocean, when you can’t even understand one another?

Stanislav Lem 110 quotes

I hadn't known there were so ...

I hadn't known there were so many idiots in the world until I started using the Internet.

Stanislav Lem 110 quotes

A specialist is a barbarian w...

A specialist is a barbarian whose ignorance is not well-rounded.

Stanislav Lem 110 quotes

A candidate is a person who g...

A candidate is a person who gets money from the rich and votes from the poor to protect them from each other.

Stanislav Lem 110 quotes

For moral reasons I am an ath...

For moral reasons I am an atheist - for moral reasons. I am of the opinion that you would recognize a creator by his creation, and the world appears to me to be put together in such a painful way that I prefer to believe that it was not created by anyone than to think that somebody created this intentionally.

Stanislav Lem 110 quotes

I never read to kill time. Ki...

I never read to kill time. Killing time is like killing someone's wife or a child. There is nothing more precious for me than time.

Stanislav Lem 110 quotes

If man had more of a sense of...

If man had more of a sense of humor, things might have turned out differently.

Stanislav Lem 110 quotes

Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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Советских актёров часто ставят в пример как образец духовной силы, национальной гордости и внутренней красоты. Они стали символами эпохи, носителями культуры и нравственности. Но, как известно, за кул...

Десять кинозвезд, которые отлично поют

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Актеры — люди творческие, но кто бы мог подумать, что некоторые из них скрывают прекрасный голос. В эпоху раннего Голливуда актеров с музыкальными способностями было немало — это считалось скорее норм...

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Расскажем, как сложилась судьба актеров, которые начинали сниматься еще в детстве.
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Два года назад отечественное телевидение столкнулось с беспрецедентной кадровой тектоникой — целая группа ярких и узнаваемых ведущих стремительно исчезла с экранов федеральных каналов. Эти лица долгие...

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....