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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.
Vaclav Havel
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Vaclav Havel
Age: 75 †
Born: 1936
Born: October 5
Died: 2011
Died: December 18
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People thought they could explain and conquer nature-yet the outcome is that they destroyed it and disinherited themselves from it.
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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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President Murabak has been a U.S. ally for decades. He was a guarantor of some degree of peace in the Middle East and has kept a good relationship with the Western world.
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People, your Government has returned to you!
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Work for something because it is good, not just because it stands a chance to succeed.
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I cannot imagine that I could strive for something if I did not carry hope in me.
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The truth is not simply what you think it is it is also the circumstances in which it is said, and to whom, why, and how it is said.
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I have read somewhere that in a totalitarian system martyrdom does better than thought.
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The role of the writer is not simply to arrange Being according to his own lights he must also serve as a medium to Being and remain open to its often unfathomable dictates. This is the only way the work can transcend its creator and radiate its meaning...
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The only lost cause is one we give up on before we enter the struggle.
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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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Ideology is a specious way of relating to the world. It offers human beings the illusion of an identity, of dignity, and of morality while making it easier for them to part with them.
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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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All human suffering concerns each human being.
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The award is destined for scientists who do not fear to touch on some of the darkest aspects of being without betraying what they have achieved. On the contrary, they head in this direction.
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Modern science kills God and takes his place on the vacant throne. Science is the sole legitimate arbiter of all relavent truth.
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Without the constantly living and articulated eperience of absurdity, there would be no reason to attempt to do something meaningful. And on the contrary, how can one experience one's own absurdity if one is not constantly seeking meaning?
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It's not hard to stand behind one's successes. But to accept responsibility for one's failures... that is devishly hard!
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As in everything else, I must start with myself. That is: in all circumstances try to be decent, just, tolerant, and understanding, and at the same time try to resist corruption and deception. In other words, I must do my utmost to act in harmony with my conscience and my better self.
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