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If you want to see your plays performed the way you wrote them, become President. – 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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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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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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I feel very proud, even though they didnt elect me, to be President of the Argentines. – General Leopoldo Galtieri

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Under a Presidential government, a nation has, except at the electing moment, no influence; it has not the ballot-box before it; its virtue is gone, and it must wait till its instant of despotism again returns. – Walter Bagehot

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You dont need to know whos playing on the White House tennis court to be a good president. A president has many roles. – James Baker

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Anyone that wants the presidency so much that hell spend two years organizing and campaigning for it is not to be trusted with the office. – David Broder

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The sports page records peoples accomplishments, the front page usually records nothing, but mans failures. – Barbara Walters

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Water flows uphill towards money. – Anonymous, saying in the American West, quoted by Ivan Doig in Marc Reisner, Cad

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Creative thinking inspires ideas. Ideas inspire change. – Barbara Januszkiewicz

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Poetry is prose, bent out of shape. – J. Patrick Lewis, www.jpatricklewis.com

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