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Quote by Vaclav Havel
The attempt to devote oneself to literature alone is a most decept

The attempt to devote oneself to literature alone is a most deceptive thing, and often, paradoxically, it is literature that suffers for it. – Vaclav Havel

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Without free, self-respecting, and autonomous citizens there can be no free and independent nations. Without internal peace, that is, peace among citizens and between the citizens and the state, there can be no guarantee of external peace. – Vaclav Havel

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Peace
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Vaclav Havel
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The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyone has a small part of himself in both. – Vaclav Havel

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I think Jersey stands alone, and because Im from Jersey, I never make fun of where people are from. Ill make fun of what they look like, but Ill never make fun of where they are from. Jersey is special. – Jeff Ross

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Alone Im nothing. – Robert Plant

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But the wicked passions of mens hearts alone seem strong enough to leave pictures that persist the good are ever too luke-warm. – Algernon H. Blackwood

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You can work on the saxophone alone, but ultimately you must perform with others. – Steve Lacy

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