Alfred Polgar quotes
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“Too often man handles life as he does the bad weather. He whiles away the time as he waits for it to stop.”
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“When everyone leaves you it's loneliness you feel, when you leave everyone else it's solitude.”
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“Work is what you do so that sometime you won't have to do it anymore.”
-- Alfred Polgar -
“It is the destiny of the emigrant that the foreign land does not become his homeland: his homeland becomes foreign.”
-- Alfred Polgar -
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“The striking aphorism requires a stricken aphorist.”
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“It is best never to have been born. But who among us has such luck? One in a million, perhaps.”
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“It would be a miracle, for example, if I dropped a stone and it rose upwards. But is it no miracle that it falls to the ground?”
-- Alfred Polgar
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Source : A. L. Kennedy (2007). “Day”, Random House
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Source : "A Match" l. 1 (1866)
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Source : Abby Sunderland, Lynn Vincent (2011). “Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas”, p.199, Thomas Nelson Inc
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Source : Source: www.indielondon.co.uk
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