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• Don't shout for help at night. You might wake your neighbors.
  -- Stanislaw J. Lem, "Unkempt Though...
• When smashing monuments, save the pedstals -- they always come in handy.
  -- Stanislaw J. Lem, "Unkempt Though...
• When you jump for joy, beware that no-one moves the ground from beneath your feet.
  -- Stanislaw Lem, "Unkempt Though...
• If a man who cannot count finds a four-leaf clover, is he entitled to happiness?
  -- Stanislaw Lec -- Unkempt Though...
• You climb to reach the summit, but once there, discover that all roads lead down.
  -- Stanislaw Lem, "The Cyberiad...
• When the Universe was not so out of whack as it is today
  and all the stars were lined up in their proper places, you could easily count them from left to right, or top to bottom, and the larger and bluer ones were set apart, and the smaller yellowing types pushed off to the corners as bodies of a lower grade....
• Even his ignorance is encyclopedic. -- Stanislaw Lem
• Think before you think! -- Stanislaw Lem