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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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"Anyone that refuses to grow will remain in the past. It is a demand of life."
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"Losing your job gives you the opportunity to make your life count."
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"Make a change of your steps when necessary. "Status quo" is the court room where change is kept on trial for long, delaying the verdict. Make a change and achieve your dreams. Rule your case with victory."
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"Since when has corruption everywhere, homes, streets, offices, become a Nigerian factor."
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"Heat of blood makes young people change their inclinations often, and habit makes old ones keep to theirs a great while."
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"The change the world needs is not in the hand of everyone who is alive. It is in the works of those who deliberately contribute to make it a better place."
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"The lowest ebb is the turn of the tide."
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"You realize you can't change the world but it shouldn't stop you from trying."
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"Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either ceases or turns absolute madness."
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"There are few things that will remain constant over the long run."
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"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 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."
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"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
"We served on the editorial board of a literary monthly called Face in 1968 and 1969. He was a young writer, and I was also interested in broad cultural issues. We agreed on all major issues and became friends."
Friendship
"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."
Experience
"People like me who were engaging in brinkmanship with the party economic bosses and the open dissidents who were being arrested were pursuing a common goal in different ways."
People
"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
"By the time I returned to Czechoslovakia, I had an understanding of the principles of the market."
Time
"The events in the square, of course, made a deep impression on me and many other parents."
Impression
"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
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