Michal
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“Ludzie o przeroście zmysłu architektonicznego, ludzie lubujący się w jasności organizacyjnej, skłonni są wierzyć, że stosunki polityczne świata są regulowane przez jakąś wszechpotężną organizację, niczym przez wszechmocne ziemskie bóstwo, które przewiduje i kształtuje każde wydarzenie polityczne. Ludzie ci nie zdają sobie sprawy, że każdy czyn, każdy wypadek polityczny mieści w sobie atomy rzeczy wielkich i atomy rzeczy małych, małostkowych, przypadkowych.”
― Historia Polski od 11 listopada 1918 do 17 września 1939
― Historia Polski od 11 listopada 1918 do 17 września 1939
“You can do what you decide to do — but you cannot decide what you will decide to do.”
― Free Will
― Free Will
“Duke Leszek the White explained in a long letter to the Pope that neither he nor any self-respecting Polish knight could be induced to go to the Holy Land, where, they had been informed, there was no wine, mead, or even beer to be had.”
― Poland: A History
― Poland: A History
“perennial truths of financial history. Sooner or later every bubble bursts. Sooner or later the bearish sellers outnumber the bullish buyers. Sooner or later greed turns to fear.”
― The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World: 10th Anniversary Edition
― The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World: 10th Anniversary Edition
“Walls
Without reflection, without mercy, without shame,
they built strong walls and high, and compassed me about.
And now I sit here and consider and despair.
My brain is worn with meditating on my fate:
I had outside so many things to terminate.
Oh! why when they were building did I not beware!
But never a sound of building, never an echo came.
Out of the world, insensibly, they shut me out.”
―
Without reflection, without mercy, without shame,
they built strong walls and high, and compassed me about.
And now I sit here and consider and despair.
My brain is worn with meditating on my fate:
I had outside so many things to terminate.
Oh! why when they were building did I not beware!
But never a sound of building, never an echo came.
Out of the world, insensibly, they shut me out.”
―
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