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True enough, the country is calm. Calm as a morgue or a grave, wou

True enough, the country is calm. Calm as a morgue or a grave, would you not say? – Vaclav Havel

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The salvation of this human world lies nowhere else than in the human heart, in the human power to reflect, in human meekness and human responsibility. – Vaclav Havel

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power
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Vaclav Havel
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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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Oppression
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Do not be misled by the fact that you are at liberty and relatively free; that for the moment you are not under lock and key: you have simply been granted a reprieve. – Ryszard Kapuscinski

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Oppression

The history of an oppressed people is hidden in the lies and the agreed myth of its conquerors. – Meridel Le Sueur

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Oppression

Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is in an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob, and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe. – Frederick Douglass

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Oppression

They have given us into the hand of new unhappy lords. Lords without anger and honor, who dare not carry their swords. They fight by shuffling papers; they have bright dead alien eyes; They look at our labor and laughter as a tired man looks at flies. – G. K. Chesterton

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Oppression

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I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end. – Margaret Thatcher

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Politics

Writing doesnt come real easy to me. I couldnt write a novel in a year. It wouldnt be readable. I dont let an editor even look at it until the second year, because it would just scare them. I just have to trust that all these scraps and dead-ends will find a way. – Charles Frazier

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Trust

Yes. I think the anti-Wal-Mart is Costco, which pays much better and has much better health benefits and which is profitable and offers low prices. – Barbara Ehrenreich

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Health

The historic ascent of humanity, taken as a whole, may be summarized as a succession of victories of consciousness over blind forces – in nature, in society, in man himself. – Leon Trotsky

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Nature