Vaclav Havel Quotes
We live in the postmodern world, where everything is possible and almost nothing is certain.
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I think I've had the longest career of strength, focus, and still being able to sell records. I think I'm that guy. I'm still blessed with the opportunity to make music and pass out a message like, 'Life is good,' to the world.
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I think the tradition of well-written history hasn't been squashed out of the academic world as much in Britain as it has in the United States.
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When I'm telling stories of my video game days, when I was a really hardcore MMO player, I played 'EverQuest' for two years and played 'World of Warcraft' and several other games for the last ten years or so... 95% of the stories I'll tell you are 'EverQuest.'
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From the moment this war began, there was, for this state, only one policy possible, neutrality.
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In certain parts of the world - where I'm at right now in New York, you're going to pay a whole lot more. In Los Angeles, your average starter home is a million dollars. So I need more money in Los Angeles to live like a normal person. If I live in another city, Iowa maybe, I wouldn't need as much.
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I think that's what art is about: to provoke you. It helps me make sense of a senseless universe because I become the god of the story. I create it, and I see it in all its lineaments in my own way and can control it – in a world in which everything else is out of control.
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I think anything that is expressed directly and as honestly as possible will last.
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There are no friends at cards or world politics.
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One of the most untruthful things possible, you know, is a collection of facts, because they can be made to appear so many different ways.
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You don't have to aim to be the best of everything, thinking that one day you're going to be the top of the world; I don't think it exists.
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Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.
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People think that their world will get smaller as they get older. My experience is just the opposite. Your senses become more acute. You start to blossom.
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Men we shall have only as we make manhood the object of the work of the schools - intelligence, broad sympathy, knowledge of the world that was and is, and of the relation of men to it - this is the curriculum of that Higher Education which must underlie true life.
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I never really felt I had the same respect as my male team-mates. My opinion wasn't worth as much. I used to sit quietly in meetings and not say anything, as I knew my opinions would be disregarded. And that's after I had become Olympic champion and multiple world champion.
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I don't want to be just an average guy. I want to do whatever possible to win a lot of games. I'm a competitor.
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I was swept by the narrative structure of film... you can create a world, you can destroy it, you can do what you want with it and serve it to people just the way you like.
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Because of recent improvements in the accuracy of theoretical predictions based on large scale ab initio quantum mechanical calculations, meaningful comparisons between theoretical and experimental findings have become possible.
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I grew up in this world where everything seemed possible.
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You have the Savior of the world on your side. If you seek His help and follow His directions, how can you fail?
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When my turn comes I propose to take my lethal capsule comfortably in bed at home and preferably on my own.
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Lysistrata: O women, if we would compel the men to bow to Peace, ... We must refrain from every depth of love.... Why do you turn your backs? Where are you going? Why do you bite your lips and shake your heads? Why are your faces blanched? Why do you weep? (tr. Lindsay 1925, Perseus)
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We have got to zero in on the fact that all of us, no matter where you live, want our kids' lives to be an upgrade over our own, and we would really like it if our kids could come back and live where we raised them.
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I don't trust a lot of journalists.
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We live in the postmodern world, where everything is possible and almost nothing is certain.
