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Quotes by Czechoslovakian Authors
"It is possible to spend one's entire lifetime without ever experiencing the mystical realms or even without being aware of their existence."
"But to be fair, if you take players from my era to now, the game has changed and the players have many more shots. They use them differently than we did. The speed of the game has changed."
"As long as I had easy access to psychedelics at the government-sponsored research project, most of my energy went into psychedelic sessions."
"Mother belonged to a realm of other creatures: smaller, lighter, more easily blown away."
"He thought: that's certainly how it starts. One day a person puts his legs up on a bench, then night comes and he falls asleep. That's how it happens that one fine day a person joins the tramps and turns into one of them."
"As soon as man began considering himself the source of the highest meaning in the world and the measure of everything, the world began to lose its human dimension, and man began to lose control of it."
"Most people willingly deceive themselves with a doubly false faith; they believe in eternal memory (of men, things, deeds, peoples) and in rectification (of deeds, errors, sins, injustice). Both are sham. The truth lies at the opposite end of the scale: everything will be forgotten and nothing will be rectified. All rectification (both vengeance and forgiveness) will be taken over by oblivion."
"I got bad calls every match, and I never got an apology. So I thought it was rather strange."
"But I also like to shower my parents with presents. I bought them a beautiful car and a house."
"Many of us who have experienced psychedelics feel very much that they are sacred tools. They open spiritual awareness."
"I have taken part in ceremonies with North American and Mexican shamans, as well as Brazilian ceremonies."
"Be these people either Conservatives or Socialists, Yellows or Reds, the most important thing is - and that is the point I want to stress - that all of them are right in the plain and moral sense of the word."
"You can have a revolution wherever you like, except in a government office; even were the world to come to an end, you'd have to destroy the universe first and then government offices."
"But for the time being, I've only learned one cake recipe and how to make scrambled eggs."
"One never knows whether people have principles on principle or whether for their own personal satisfaction."
"Otherwise, I spend a lot of time at my boyfriend's home in the country, in New Jersey."
"In some instances, the accuracy of past-life memories can be objectively verified, sometimes with remarkable detail."
"I can only say, think of me what you will, I have worked for thirty years in the Party, and my whole family has devoted everything to the affairs of the Party, the affairs of socialism."
"The money in the schools overpowers the principles of the purpose."
"Seems like most of the kids today are into other sports other than tennis."
"For what is love if one loves a woman without knowing her? Just a decision to love? Or even an imitation? The question concerns us all: If, from our childhood on, the examples of love were not there inviting us to copy them, would we know what "loving" means?"
"To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring - it was peace."
"I rarely do masks because, if I have any extra time, I'd rather spend it with my friends than on myself."
"I was maybe only 13 or 14 when I started to play junior tournaments."
"I put my money in the bank: I have to think of life after modeling, when I'm not famous any more."
"I was now resolved to do everything in my power to defeat the system."
"O God and Lord, now the council condemns even Your own act and Your own law as heresy, since You Yourself did lay Your cause before Your Father as the just judge, as an example for us, whenever we are sorely oppressed."
"I think no matter what you do you go through stages when you play. There was a number of times when I didn't do very well or was tired. It was too much to combine school and tennis altogether. Parents need to step in and say, take a little time off, do something fun."
"The psyche of the individual is commensurate with the totality of creative energy. This requires a most radical revision of Western psychology."
"I've lived for 10 years in Switzerland, so I speak German."
"The first step in liquidating a people,' said Hubl, 'is to erase its memory. Destroy its books, its culture, its history. Then have somebody write new books, manufacture a new culture, invent a new history. Before long the nation will begin to forget what it is and what it was. The world around it will forget even faster."
"In Tereza's eyes, books were the emblems of a secret brotherhood. For she had but a single weapon against the world of crudity surrounding her: the novels. She had read any number of them, from Fielding to Thomas Mann. They not only offered the possibility of an imaginary escape from a life she found unsatisfying; they also had a meaning for her as physical objects: she loved to walk down the street with a book under her arm. It had the same significance for her as an elegant cane from the dandy a century ago. It differentiated her from others."
"Listening to a news broadcast is like smoking a cigarette and crushing the butt in the ashtray."
"I have good anticipation, and good reaction to the the ball because I've played so many matches in my life."
"I just travel all the time. And I was just looking at the schedules now and starting the first week of October I will be every weekend with somebody at tournaments through Christmas. So it gets very difficult to just go away and not do that."
"After Barbarossa and Pearl Harbor, the war tide slowly turned against the Axis."
"I read Freud's Introductory Lectures in Psychoanalysis in basically one sitting. I decided to enroll in medical school. It was almost like a conversion experience."
"The first point is always to believe in it when you go on court and then you have the chances to win."
"Without much ardor but quite unmistakably, she was writhing her hips as if she were dancing. When he was very close, he saw' her gaping mouth: she was yawning lengthily, insatiably: the great open hole was rocking gently atop die mechanically dancing body. Jean-Marc thought: she's dancing and she's bored.He reached the seawall: down below, on the beach, he saw men with their heads thrown back releasing kites into the air. They were doing it with passion, and Jean-Marc recalled his old theory: there are three kinds of boredom: passive boredom: the girl dancing and yawning; active boredom: kite-lovers; and rebellious boredom: young people burning cars and smashing shop windows."
"In the first moments, the members of the Presidium who were with me at the Secretariat were taken to the Party Central Committee under the control of Soviet forces."
"If we can make some kind of adjustments, maybe in the game, to make it interesting and slow down the surfaces, then it will be more fun and more interesting."
"My mother's a secretary; my father's an electrician in a mining company."
"But I love fish, cheese and meat, and I eat everything, but only in small quantities if it's rich."
"If every second of our lives recurs an infinite number of times, we are nailed to eternity as Jesus was nailed to the cross. It is a terrifying prospect."
"Since we humans have the better brain, isn't it our responsibility to protect our fellow creatures from, oddly enough, ourselves?"
"My goal was to play in the NHL, because that is the best hockey in the world."
"I'm lucky, I can sleep from takeoff until we land; so I'm fresh, rested and ready to work on arrival."
"There are lots of things which I would love to tell him, but in some way, I also feel that I lost the person closest to me. And I got a second chance to live. So in a way I feel that I live for both of us... and I will do my best."
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