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Your generous part in my liberation is taken by the world for the revelation of the fact, that the United States are resolved not to allow the despots of the world to trample on oppressed humanity.
Lajos Kossuth
Humanity
World
Resolved
Despot
States
Liberation
Fact
Allow
Part
Taken
Generous
Revelation
Oppressed
Trample
Your
United
United States
I came not to your glorious shores to enjoy a happy rest - I came not to gather triumphs of personal distinction, but as a humble petitioner, in my country's name, as its freely chosen constitutional leader, to entreat your generous aid.
Lajos Kossuth
Happy
Humble
Rest
Leader
Country
Glorious
Enjoy
Aid
Distinction
Constitutional
Triumphs
Generous
Freely
Name
Came
Personal
Shores
Your
Chosen
Gather
I believe that the confidence of Hungary in me is not shaken by misfortune nor broken by my calumniators.
Lajos Kossuth
Me
Broken
Confidence
Hungary
Believe
Shaken
Misfortune
Nor
I will not become a Napoleon nor an Alexander, and labour for my own ambition; but I will labour for freedom and for the moral well-being of man.
Lajos Kossuth
Freedom
Man
Will
Become
Ambition
Own
Alexander
Moral
My Own
Napoleon
Well-Being
Nor
Labour
You must be a power on earth, and must therefore accept all the consequences of this position.
Lajos Kossuth
You
Power
Consequences
Earth
Must
Accept
Therefore
Position
Even in political considerations, now-a-days, you have stronger motives to feel interested in the fate of Europe than in the fate of the Central or Southern parts of America.
Lajos Kossuth
You
Fate
Political
Stronger
Considerations
Feel
Parts
Motives
Southern
Than
America
Central
Interested
Europe
Even
The principle of evil in Europe is the enervating spirit of Russian absolutism.
Lajos Kossuth
Evil
Spirit
Russian
Absolutism
Principle
Europe
The artist writes, paints, sings or dances the burden of some idea or feeling off his mind.
Max Nordau
Burden
Mind
Feeling
Dances
Some
Writes
Idea
Sings
His
Off
Artist
Paints
Admittedly, the body of scientists, as a whole, does uphold the authority of science over the lay public. It controls thereby also the process by which young men are trained to become members of the scientific profession.
Michael Polanyi
Science
Men
Become
Young
Members
Admittedly
Lay
Over
Also
Scientific
Does
Scientists
Trained
Authority
Uphold
Controls
Process
Which
Young Men
Public
Body
Profession
Thereby
Whole
Of course language manifests a belief only if we use its words with the implied acceptance of their appositeness.
Michael Polanyi
Acceptance
Words
Language
Only
Implied
Course
Use
Belief
So long as we use a certain language, all questions that we can ask will have to be formulated in it and will thereby confirm the theory of the universe which is implied in the vocabulary and structure of the language.
Michael Polanyi
Language
Will
Long
Universe
Vocabulary
Structure
Implied
Questions
Confirm
Which
Ask
Certain
Use
Theory
Thereby
The first thing to make clear is that scientists, freely making their own choice of problems and pursuing them in the light of their own personal judgment, are in fact co-operating as members of a closely knit organization.
Michael Polanyi
Light
Problems
Organization
First
Judgment
Own
Members
Fact
Pursuing
Clear
Knit
Freely
Make
First Thing
Making
Scientists
Personal
Closely
The First Thing
In Fact
Them
Choice
Thing
The process of philosophic and scientific enlightenment has shaken the stability of beliefs held explicitly as articles of faith.
Michael Polanyi
Faith
Philosophic
Shaken
Scientific
Articles
Stability
Process
Explicitly
Held
Beliefs
Enlightenment
We could not, for example, arrive at a principle like that of entropy without introducing some additional principle, such as randomness, to this topography.
Michael Polanyi
Example
Additional
Randomness
Topography
Introducing
Some
Could
Entropy
Like
For Example
Principle
Without
Arrive
A Web site that promotes flow is like a gourmet meal. You start off with the appetizers, move on to the salads and entrees, and build toward dessert. Unfortunately, most sites are built like a cafeteria. You pick whatever you want. That sounds good at first, but soon it doesn't matter what you choose to do. Everything is bland and the same.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Good
You
Matter
First
Build
Whatever
Move On
Meal
Everything
Dessert
Web
Web Site
Bland
Pick
Soon
Toward
Like
Most
Built
Gourmet
Sounds
Salads
Off
Site
Same
Sites
Move
Want
Unfortunately
Choose
Start
Flow
Competition is an easy way to get into flow.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Competition
Way
Easy
Easy Way
Get
Flow
And, in fact, you can find that the lack of basic resources, material resources, contributes to unhappiness, but the increase in material resources do not increase happiness.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Happiness
You
Increase
Resources
Find
Fact
Material
Lack
In Fact
Unhappiness
Basic
Discipline is not always internalized and actually can breed resentment among children.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Discipline
Always
Children
Breed
Resentment
Among
Actually
People enter Web sites hoping to be led somewhere, hoping for a payoff.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
People
Somewhere
Enter
Hoping
Web
Web Sites
Led
Sites
Payoff
God may not play dice with the universe, but something strange is going on with the prime numbers.
Paul Erdos
God
Strange
Universe
Something
Prime
Dice
Going
May
Play
Numbers
Television is something the Russians invented to destroy American education.
Paul Erdos
Education
Television
Destroy
Russians
Something
Invented
American
Property is a nuisance.
Paul Erdos
Property
Nuisance
My brain is open.
Paul Erdos
Open
Brain
Finally I'm becoming stupider no more.
Paul Erdos
Finally
More
Stupider
Becoming
But you don't get into a business because of personal tastes.
Peter Munk
You
Business
Because
Get
Personal
Tastes
For a Canadian, natural resources were a good fit.
Peter Munk
Good
Natural
Resources
Were
Fit
Canadian
Natural Resources
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