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Quotes by Yugoslavian Authors
"Consciousness is what makes the mind-body problem really intractable."
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"It doesn't matter who is playing or how old they are. I just worry about what I can control. It doesn't give me more or less motivation."
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"For as long as multinational communities have existed, their weak point has always been the relations between different nations."
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"It is the utmost necessity that this congress be a congress of unity."
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"We have no quarrel with America. We all know NATO is the strongest military machine in the world. We simply want them to stop being so busy with our country and worry about their own problems."
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"You will never have great tennis champions from England because of the cold and dark, but most of all because people only care about the sport for two weeks a year, and then they're on to something else. There's just not a great love of the sport there."
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"We are not angels. Nor are we the devils you have made us out to be."
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"NATO believes it can pick on a small nation and force us to surrender our independence. And that is where NATO miscalculated. You are not willing to sacrifice lives to achieve our surrender. But we are willing to die to defend our rights as an independent sovereign nation."
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"I did realise more than ever, after the stabbing, that tennis is a business - a tough business."
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"Madonna has total control over her life, and not many women have that."
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"Tennis has to become everything to you if you're going to make it to the top. You have to live it."
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"Eventually, I believe, current attempts to understand the mind by analogy with man-made computers that can perform superbly some of the same external tasks as conscious beings will be recognized as a gigantic waste of time."
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"There is a tendency to seek an objective account of everything before admitting its reality."
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"Yugoslavia is a multinational community and it can survive only under the conditions of full equality for all nations that live in it."
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"The truth can not be drowned by any flood of false indictments."
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"People think I must have been so talented at an early age, but I don't know - was it talent or hard work? Who knows?"
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"The only differences one can and should allow in socialism are between hard working people and idlers and between honest people and dishonest people."
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"You have to want to play it all day, every day to get to the top."
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"Did you know that Christmas Day is absolutely the best day to fly? It is. No crowded airports and crowded planes. I always flew to Australia. That's what Christmas was for me - a plane journey to the next tournament."
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"Tennis is so competitive. I guess that's the way it has to be."
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"I never really did Christmas before. Christmas Day? I mean - what's that? What's it all about? I was always flying on Christmas Day."
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"Countries under foreign command quickly forget their history, their past, their tradition, their national symbols, their way of living, often their own literary language."
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"Equal and united people can above all become a part of the civilization toward which mankind is moving. If we cannot be at the head of the column leading to such a civilization, there is certainly no need for us to be at is tail."
12
"That's the key to success, isn't it? It has to be fun."
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"It is difficult to say today whether the Battle of Kosovo was a defeat or a victory for the Serbian people, whether thanks to it we fell into slavery or we survived in this slavery."
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"At the time when this famous historical battle was fought in Kosovo, the people were looking at the stars, expecting aid from them. Now, six centuries later, they are looking at the stars again, waiting to conquer them."
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"It should be clear to all, after the past ten years, that NATO isn't attacking Serbia because of Milosevic; it is attacking Milosevic because of Serbia."
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"The loss of national identity is the greatest defeat a nation can know, and it is inevitable under the contemporary form of colonization."
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"Equality means nothing unless incorporated into the institutions."
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"I have this terrible dark side to my personality, which playing tennis keeps at bay."
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