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Quotes by Czechoslovakian Authors
"Without free, self-respecting, and autonomous citizens there can be no free and independent nations. Without internal peace, that is, peace among citizens and between the citizens and the state, there can be no guarantee of external peace."
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"It was a great thing to be a human being. It was something tremendous. Suddenly I'm conscious of a million sensations buzzing in me like bees in a hive. Gentlemen, it was a great thing."
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"When I came for the first time to the United States, visiting, I was absolutely fascinated by New York."
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"I always give Lindsay so much credit for her tennis game, for her attitude, for her person, and because of how she deals with all the things. I don't think people give her enough credit for how well she's doing."
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"People are going deaf because music is played louder and louder, but because they're going deaf, it has to be played louder still."
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"Cognition is not fighting, but once someone knows a lot, he will have much to fight for, so much that he will be called a relativist because of it."
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"To pursue a so-called Third Way is foolish. We had our experience with this in the 1960s when we looked for a socialism with a human face. It did not work, and we must be explicit that we are not aiming for a more efficient version of a system that has failed."
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"According to materialistic science, any memory requires a material substrate, such as the neuronal network in the brain or the DNA molecules of the genes."
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"Without realizing it, the individual composes his life according to the laws of beauty even in times of greatest distress."
"Just as the constant increase of entropy is the basic law of the universe, so it is the basic law of life to be ever more highly structured and to struggle against entropy."
"I rarely do masks because, if I have any extra time, I'd rather spend it with my friends than on myself."
"A style is not a matter of camera angles or fancy footwork, it's an expression, an accurate expression of your particular opinion."
"Individuals approaching death often experience encounters with their dead relatives, who seem to welcome them to the next world. These deathbed visions are authentic and convincing; they are often followed by a state of euphoria and seem to ease the transition."
"No great movement designed to change the world can bear to be laughed at or belittled. Mockery is a rust that corrodes all it touches."
"I grew up on the tennis court with lots of other kids. There were like 40 kids all afternoon and I was one of the youngest ones, so I always had to chase everybody to keep up."
"Whether or not we believe in survival of consciousness after death, reincarnation, and karma, it has very serious implications for our behavior."
"There is something that falls short of perfection in every book, without exception, something influenced by the age, even something ridiculous; just like everyone, without exception, has weaknesses."
"The beliefs concerning reincarnation have great ethical impact on human life and our relationship to the world."
"The sound of laughter is like the vaulted dome of a temple of happiness."
"Happiness is the longing for repetition."
"Nothing is more repugnant to me than brotherly feelings grounded in the common baseness people see in one another."
"The worst evil is - and that's the product of censorship - is the self-censorship, because that twists spines, that destroys my character because I have to think something else and say something else, I have to always control myself."
"Many of us who have experienced psychedelics feel very much that they are sacred tools. They open spiritual awareness."
"My acting coach makes the impossible accessible."
"There are lots of things which I would love to tell him, but in some way, I also feel that I lost the person closest to me. And I got a second chance to live. So in a way I feel that I live for both of us... and I will do my best."
"He took over anger to intimidate subordinates, and in time anger took over him."
"Beyond this day, no thinking person could fail to see what would happen."
"My goal was to play in the NHL, because that is the best hockey in the world."
"I have taken part in ceremonies with North American and Mexican shamans, as well as Brazilian ceremonies."
"Privatization of the state-owned economy is not yet on the agenda. We cannot do it immediately; my colleagues would not agree to it. But we must put all forms of ownership on an equal footing immediately and let different types of ownership compete with the state firms."
"I continued studying by myself in the field of jazz with my own technique of improvisation, walking bass lines, rhythms, all kinds of stuff, which I created for myself."
"Anyone who takes himself too seriously always runs the risk of looking ridiculous; anyone who can consistently laugh at himself does not."
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"I believe it is essential for our planetary future to develop tools that can change the consciousness which has created the crisis that we are in."
"Flying is awful, there's nothing to do when you're up in the air. I bloat up, my skin gets dry, and when we hit turbulence, I'm terrified."
"I never intended to be a politician or office-seeker."
"I tell you, in my opinion, the cornerstone of democracy is free press - that's the cornerstone."
"I was fortunate enough to visit a lot of beautiful places around the world. The most astonishing and memorable experiences were my trips to Africa and Australia."
"Honestly, I'm more into the computer, the Internet, and checking out scores or the news."
"I was always at peace because of the way my mom treated me."
"Metaphors are dangerous. Love begins with a metaphor. Which is to say, love begins at the point when a woman enters her first word into our poetic memory."
"You still stand watch, O human star, burning without a flicker, perfect flame, bright and resourceful spirit. Each of your rays a great idea - O torch which passes from hand to hand, from age to age, world without end."
"Now, after the communist take-over in 1948, the amount of feature films produced dwindled to three a year, while the school was, you know, every year another three, four, five students."
"If I'm on location on some island, we usually get up at four in the morning to set up. By seven thirty, we're on the beach working until noon, then we rest. It's not exactly a vacation."
"If an ordinary person is silent, it may be a tactical maneuver. If a writer is silent, he is lying."
"The new formula in physics describes humans as paradoxical beings who have two complementary aspects: They can show properties of Newtonian objects and also infinite fields of consciousness."
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