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Quote by Vaclav Havel
I really do inhabit a system in which words are capable of shaking

I really do inhabit a system in which words are capable of shaking the entire structure of government, where words can prove mightier than ten military divisions. – Vaclav Havel

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Isnt it the moment of most profound doubt that gives birth to new certainties? Perhaps hopelessness is the very soil that nourishes human hope perhaps one could never find sense in life without first experiencing its absurdity. – Vaclav Havel

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Hope
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Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good. – Vaclav Havel

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good
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It lies in human nature that where you experience your first laughs, you also remember the age kindly. – Vaclav Havel

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Age
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Government
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The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men. – Plato

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Government

My politics are of a practical kind – the integrity of the country, the supremacy of the Federal government, an honorable peace, or none at all. – Winfield Scott Hancock

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Government

Where might is mixed with wit, there is too good an accord in a government. – Elizabeth I

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Government

Talk is cheap — except when Congress does it. – Cullen Hightower

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Government

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Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell. – Edward Abbey

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[Golf] is like chasing a quinine pill around a cow pasture. – Winston Churchill

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To be deeply committed to negotiations, to be opposed to a particular war or military action, is not only considered unpatriotic, it also casts serious doubt on ones manhood. – Myriam Miedzian

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Obedience

After that he turned to the question of invading England. Hitler said that during the previous year he could not afford to risk a possible failure apart from that, he had not wished to provoke the British, as he hoped to arrange peace talks. – Kurt Student

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Failure