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Quotes by Czechoslovakian Authors
"The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting."
"And also they were absolutely brilliant in one way, you know: they knew how effective is not to punish somebody who is guilty; what Communist Party members could afford to do was mind-boggling: they could do practically anything they wanted - steal, you know, lie, whatever."
"Hope is a feeling that life and work have meaning. You either have it or you don't, regardless of the state of the world that surrounds you."
"If you want to run, run a mile. If you want to experience a different life, run a marathon."
"Dictators are rulers who always look good until the last ten minutes."
"Whenever I'm free, I spend time with people I love, people that inspire me in many different ways."
"Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy."
"I think if you look at Andre then and now, you look at two different models. Of course it's personal preference, I think Andre now is a great role model for the kids. He has started training differently than he was before, and so on and so on."
"I'm not saying I'm something special. I might play a little better tennis than other people, but it is because I was given the chance, and not many people are."
"Relativism is neither a method of fighting, nor a method of creating, for both of these are uncompromising and at times even ruthless; rather, it is a method of cognition."
"Because in order to beat Jimmy, I had to get around the ball a little bit quicker so I wasn't always on defensive and catching the ball on last stride, that I had little more time. Once I was able to get little bit quicker, then it has helped me a lot."
"But I have returned to one hundred percent playing this year. I am fully back to playing full time."
"In the kind of world we have today, transformation of humanity might well be our only real hope for survival."
"For God is my witness that I neither preached, affirmed, nor defended them, though they say that I did."
"The athlete of today is not an athlete alone. He's the center of a team - doctors, scientists, coaches, agents and so on."
"The attempt to devote oneself to literature alone is a most deceptive thing, and often, paradoxically, it is literature that suffers for it."
"Research challenges the materialistic understanding of death, according to which biological death represents the final end of existence and of all conscious activity."
"Those who consider the Devil to be a partisan of Evil and angels to be warriors for Good accept the demagogy of the angels. Things are clearly more complicated."
"We are the party of the Czechoslovak proletariat and our general headquarters are in Moscow."
"It is possible to see the intermediate state between lives as being in a way more important than incarnate existence."
"There is no fundamental difference between the preparation for death and the practice of dying, and spiritual practice leading to enlightenment."
"The beauty comes with the balance. Everyone should find his own balance in his personal as well as his professional life. Once you do so, you will feel and look beautiful."
"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."
"I had a vision how it should sound and I put all my knowledge into this product and it is a fantastic product. People still tell me that I have the best musical thing there."
"When I model I pretty much go blank. You can't think too much or it doesn't work."
"But it's very difficult, I can tell you I played the Czech Open a few times and it's very difficult just to go on to a scene where the course is prepared differently when the greens are fast and he's not used to it and they're hard as a rock and he's not used to it."
"I said I would do all the films about the commercials, and the films about ball-bearings and Ford tractors and so on, if once a year they gave me money for a free film."
"I actually met Chick Corea in New York, where I was staying with a bass player friend."
"What we want is to establish the rules of a market economy - not to plan its outcome."
"The materialistic paradigm of Western science has been a major obstacle for any objective evaluation of the data describing the events occurring at the time of death."
"In the economic sphere, the program demanded thorough decentralization and managerial independence of enterprises, as well as legalization of small-scale private enterprise, especially in the service sector."
"Many instances exist of small children who seem to remember and describe their previous life in another body, another place, and with other people. These memories emerge usually shortly after these children begin to talk."
"Patients reported that their psychedelic sessions were an invaluable experiential training for dying."
"I'm glad you're doing this story on us and not on the WNBA. We're so much prettier than all the other women in sports."
"Italian men do appreciate beautiful women. They're not afraid of the beauty, which is nice."
"Dying people in pre-industrial cultures typically died in the context of an extended family, clan, or tribe."
"The knowledge of the realm of death makes it possible for the shaman to move freely back and forth and mediate these journeys for other people."
"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."
"Let us have but one end in view, the welfare of humanity; and let us put aside all selfishness in consideration of language, nationality, or religion."
"If you saw a dog going to be crushed under a car, wouldn't you help him?"
"Coming to terms with the fear of death is conducive to healing, positive personality transformation, and consciousness evolution."
"I'm even embarrassed at times when my friends come upon my pictures."
"Learn from the past, look to the future, but live in the present."
"Minority views expressed in films simply don't sell tickets."
"On my birthday, I was in Milan for the collections."
"So our ears got used to listening to jazz in the place that it was that the bass player could not play. No one really realized it and really addressed it until the bass players who could play their instrument came along and started doing something with it."
"People must not think that all bad in man which is unleashed, the moment you impose censorship disappears from man."
"A runner must run with dreams in his heart, not money in his pocket."
"I took it very seriously and got very far with it. I was pretty much on a high level when I arrived."
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