Vaclav Havel Quotes
Every consession gives rise to further concessions, we cannot back down, because behind us there is only an abyss, we must keep our promises and demand that they be kept.

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While certainly no pressing threat to Gordon Lightfoot, I knew it was simply a matter of time until I was going to be a star.
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The five patients in 'Rethinking Cancer' share with us the path of their recovery: the courage to take their own lives in their hands with a natural approach to healing their bodies.
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There is a lot of food culture that goes on in the home and in the community in non-traditional ways. Food is a lot more than restaurants.
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I am very, very diligent and extremely hard-working.
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What's becoming very obvious to me is that fashion is art.
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The organized charity, scrimped and iced, In the name of a cautious, statistical Christ.
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I think everybody would love to say they were in a movie. Whether or not I'm any good at it, I don't know.
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Uncles and aunts, and cousins, are all very well, and fathers and mothers are not to be despised; but a grandmother, at holiday time, is worth them all.
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Be more assertive with what you want to do.
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They say, 'To serve is to love,' and I think to serve is to heal, too.
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There are three things to beware of through life: when a man is young, let him beware of his appetites; when he is middle-aged, of his passions; and when old, of covetousness, especially.
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Combine a certain amount of indifference with your ambition. Be carefully careless. If you don't succeed today, there is always tomorrow.
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If money go before, all ways do lie open.
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And to all this she must yet add something more substantial, in the improvement of her mind by extensive reading.
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With old liars who have been acting all their lives there are moments when they enter so completely into their part that they tremble or shed tears in earnest, although at that very moment, or a second later, they are able to whisper to themselves, "You know you are lying, you shameless old sinner! You're acting now, in spite of your 'holy' wrath.
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I'm not responsible enough to have a dog - or a child.
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Scientists say the European space probe that landed on the comet has detected organic matter. This means there could be either life in space or a Whole Foods. We just don't know.
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Politicians make phony promises all the time that they can't deliver.
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Prayer, like faith, obtains promises, enlarges their operation, and adds to the measure of their results.
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Managers don't like giving appraisals, and employees don't like getting them. Perhaps they're not liked because both parties suspect what the evidence has proved for decades: Traditional performance appraisals don't work.
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Every consession gives rise to further concessions, we cannot back down, because behind us there is only an abyss, we must keep our promises and demand that they be kept.