Vaclav Havel Quotes
There appear to be no integrating forces, no unified meaning, no true inner understanding of phenomena in our experience of the world. Experts can explain anything in the objective world to us, yet we understand our own lives less and less. In short, we live in the postmodern world, where everything is possible and almost nothing is certain.
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Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.
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My own being can be judged by the depths I reach in making these historical origins my own.
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If I am honest, my food is actually quite far removed from both the food of my mother and my father.
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The goal in life is to be solid, whereas the way that life works is totally fluid, so you can never actually achieve that goal.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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I do not believe any president can bind a successor president to give up his fundamental role as protector of the country.
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Anytime that I've felt uninspired, I don't force myself to sit down and write. I only do it when I feel the impulse.
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For everybody that does something bad there's gotta be someone that does something good.
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My father had no influence on my political beliefs, and to imply otherwise is wrong and irresponsible.
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A woman caring for her children; a woman striving to excel in the private sector; a woman partnering with her neighbors to make their street safer; a woman running for office to improve her country - they all have something to offer, and the more our societies empower women, the more we receive in return.
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I'm highly distractable, and I have too many things on my mind very often. When I'm driving in the city, it drives me so crazy - the city traffic and the parking - I just take cabs everywhere.
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One must always draw, draw with the eyes, when one cannot draw with a pencil.
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One of the main lessons I have learned the last five years as Secretary-General is that the United Nations cannot function properly without the support of the business community and civil society. We need to have tripartite support - the governments, the business communities and the civil society.
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Everyone has a temper. A temper is an emotion.
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You know, a lot of things changed. What never changed is the illusion to keep playing tennis, the illusion to keep doing well the things, and the illusion to be in a good position of the ranking and play these kind of matches.
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I have little routines in the theater. Once I've established something, like the order of putting on makeup and a costume, I have to invariably do it in the same order every time, even if I only did it by chance the first time round.
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We live in a world where people think that finding a passion is so rare that if you find one you're the luckiest person on the planet, and the possibility of finding two is just bizarre. It isn't. We have multiple passions.
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There is no truly global justice.
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I love to run, and I actually run quite a bit.
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This is the heart of my argument: We can put more pressure on the antagonist for whom we show human concern.
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I don't think there are really enough meetings in Britain for our athletes to compete properly, and because of this a lot of the talent we have has been stunted.
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The sets were incredible. You would walk in at 6 in the morning, and we were really living in 'Blade Runner.'
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At the risk of sounding like Virginia Woolf, I could live on £700 a year.
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There appear to be no integrating forces, no unified meaning, no true inner understanding of phenomena in our experience of the world. Experts can explain anything in the objective world to us, yet we understand our own lives less and less. In short, we live in the postmodern world, where everything is possible and almost nothing is certain.
