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Education is the ability to perceive the hidden connections between phenomena.
Vaclav Havel
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Vaclav Havel
Age: 75 †
Born: 1936
Born: October 5
Died: 2011
Died: December 18
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English is the 'language of liberty' for nations emerging from years of cultural oppression.
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I am in favor of [actions] that have authenticity, roots, originality, verve, balance, taste, communicativeness, challenge, relevance to their time-in short, things that make sense.
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Sometimes I wonder if suicides aren't in fact sad guardians of the meaning of life.
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People, your Government has returned to you!
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Hope is not a feeling. It is not the belief that things will turn out well, but the conviction that what you are doing makes sense, no matter how things turn out.
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Follow the man who seeks the truth run from the man who has found it.
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We live in the postmodern world, where everything is possible and almost nothing is certain.
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Man is a part of the world, and his spirit is part of the spirit of the world. We are merely a peculiar mode of Being, a living atom within it, or, rather, a cell that, if sufficiently open to itself and its own mystery, can also experience the mystery, the will, the pain, and the hope of the world.
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The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning - in other words, of absurdity - the more energetically meaning is sought.
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The world is not divided into two types of being, one superior and the other merely surrounding it. Being, nature, the universe - they are all one infinitely complex and mysterious metaorganism of which we are but a part, though a unique one.
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The worst thing is that we live in a contaminated moral environment. We fell morally ill because we became used to saying something different from what we thought. Concepts such as love, friendship, compassion, humility or forgiveness lost their depth and dimension.
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It was never the people who complained of the universality of human rights, nor did the people consider human rights as a Western or Northern imposition. It was often their leaders who did so.
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There's a dilemma over how to balance concrete economic interests with critical opinions on the state of human rights. It's the human rights that suffer, and that's a great price to pay.
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I have read somewhere that in a totalitarian system martyrdom does better than thought.
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A genuinely fundamental and hopeful improvement in systems cannot happen without a significant shift in human consciousness.
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The only thing I can recommend at this stage is a sense of humor, an ability to see things in their ridiculous and absurd dimensions, to laugh at others and at ourselves, a sense of irony regarding everything that calls out for parody in this world. In other words, I can only recommend perspective and distance.
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I do think Russian foreign policy is very savvy. There's a need for great caution because the Russians are able to discreetly blackmail countries.
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The only lost cause is one we give up on before we enter the struggle.
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True enough, the country is calm. Calm as a morgue or a grave, would you not say?
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If a single writer in a country is in chains, then there are some links of that chain that binds us all.
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