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"Then in 1969, I spent the spring term at Cornell University in New York. The invasion of August 1968 had already happened, but the hardline regime took several months to crack down on dissidents."
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"Use your greatness, love, and kindness to change the world."
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"Identify darkness in the society and find ways to help illuminate it."
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"Everything is only a transition."
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"Every misfortune is a fortune."
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"You are born with the power to change your life by simply changing your thoughts."
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"People tend to resist a change into something new and different.But after it's succeded, they easily say that the change is a must."
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"To change the action, change thoughts first."
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"By changing-we become what we always wanted to be."
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"We must remember that we cannot change others, we can only change ourselves."
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"To introduce to people a radically difference paradigm for life is to give the best response."
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"To pursue a so-called Third Way is foolish. We had our experience with this in the 1960s when we looked for a socialism with a human face. It did not work, and we must be explicit that we are not aiming for a more efficient version of a system that has failed."
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"I also helped write the five-page statement of principles that Civic Forum issued in late November. That was the first public expression of what the new government wanted to do."
Government
"By the time I returned to Czechoslovakia, I had an understanding of the principles of the market."
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"Then in 1969, I spent the spring term at Cornell University in New York. The invasion of August 1968 had already happened, but the hardline regime took several months to crack down on dissidents."
Change
"We must have the time to create strict rules so that property is not sold by Communist managers for a low price. They often get payments under the table to sell to the first bidder. This does not build public support for a market economy."
Time
"It is what makes the reform process an art, not just a science. You have to develop a strategy that tells you what reform measures you should follow and in what sequence."
Art
"We will also allow state companies to sell shares to their workers and will pass a law allowing citizens to start companies of their own with no limits on the number of employees or on the firm's output."
Business
"To talk about planning an economic system is to talk in old terms, and I find myself sometimes having to teach Westers about what the market really means."
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"What we want is to establish the rules of a market economy - not to plan its outcome."
Economy
"I never intended to be a politician or office-seeker."
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