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Work for something because it is good, not just because it stands a chance to succeed.
Vaclav Havel
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Vaclav Havel
Age: 75 †
Born: 1936
Born: October 5
Died: 2011
Died: December 18
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If you want to see your plays performed the way you wrote them, become President.
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Evil must be confronted in its womb, and, if it can't be done otherwise, then it has to be dealt with by the use of force.
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In any case, ideals are something we strive for they are somewhere on the horizon of our efforts they provide meaning and direction they are not, however, static quotas that we either fulfill or do not.
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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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Hope is not a feeling of certainty that everything ends well. Hope is just a feeling that life and work have a meaning.
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Keep the company of those who seek the truth- run from those who have found it
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We fell morally ill because we became used to saying something different from what we thought.
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English is the 'language of liberty' for nations emerging from years of cultural oppression.
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There is only one thing I will not concede: that it might be meaningless to strive in a good cause.
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You can't spend your whole life criticizing something and then, when you have the chance to do it better, refuse to go near it.
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This is the moment when something once more begins visibly to happen, something truly new and unique... something truly historical, in the sense that history again demands to be heard.
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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.
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Sober perseverance is more effective than enthusiastic emotions, which are all too capable of being transferred, with little difficulty, to something different each day.
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It is not enough to stare up the steps, we must step up the stairs.
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Education is the ability to perceive the hidden connections between phenomena.
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We must not be afraid of dreaming the seemingly impossible if we want the seemingly impossible to become a reality.
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If the world is to change for the better it must start with a change in human consciousness, in the very humanness of modern man.
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People, your Government has returned to you!
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There's always something suspect about an intellectual on the winning side.
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We are the first atheistic and global, all-embracing civilization. You cannot tell whether you are sitting at an airport in Hong Kong or in a hotel in Alaska. Everything is instrumentalized, subjected to a short-term purpose. It is quite possible that in such a situation any sense of a deeper meaning gets lost.
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