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Vaclav Havel : 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. # Literature # Government # Dance and Dancing

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William S Burroughs : " The 'Other Half' is the word. The 'Other Half' is an organism. Word is an organism. The presence of the 'Other Half' is a seperate organism attached to your nervous system on an air line of words can now be demonstrated experimentally. One of the most common 'hallucinations' of subject during sense withdrawal is the feeling of another body sprawled through the subject's body at an angle...yes quite an angle it is the 'Other Half' worked quite some years on a symbiotic basis. From symbiosis to parasitism is a short step. The word is now a virus. The flu virus may have once been a healthy lung cell. It is now a parasitic organism that invades and damages the central nervous system. Modern man has lost the option of silence. Try halting sub-vocal speech. Try to achieve even ten seconds of inner silence. You will encounter a resisting organism that forces you to talk. That organism is the word. " # Literature # Government # Dance and Dancing

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Hitopadesa : " When the leader passes over all alike, not making a distinction, then the endeavors of those who are capable of exertion are entirely lost. " # Literature # Government # Dance and Dancing

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Dwight D Eisenhower : " The best morale exist when you never hear the word mentioned. When you hear a lot of talk about it, it's usually lousy. " # Literature # Government # Dance and Dancing

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Leo Buscaglia : " Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around. " # Literature # Government # Dance and Dancing

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John Adams : " Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society. " # Literature # Government # Dance and Dancing

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Ernest Hemingway : " Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words? He thinks I don't know the ten-dollar words. I know them all right. But there are older and simpler and better words, and those are the ones I use. " # Literature # Government # Dance and Dancing

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Dinah Maria Mulock Craik : " The world! It is a word capable of as diverse interpretations or misinterpretations as the thing itself — a thing by various people supposed to belong to heaven, man, or the devil, or alternatively to all three. ~ Ch. 9 " # Literature # Government # Dance and Dancing

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Ron Paul : " Capitalism should not be condemned, since we haven’t had capitalism. A system of capitalism presumes sound money, not fiat money manipulated by a central bank. Capitalism cherishes voluntary contracts and interest rates that are determined by savings, not credit creation by a central bank. It’s not capitalism when the system is plagued with incomprehensible rules regarding mergers, acquisitions, and stock sales, along with wage controls, price controls, protectionism, corporate subsidies, international management of trade, complex and punishing corporate taxes, privileged government contracts to the military-industrial complex, and a foreign policy controlled by corporate interests and overseas investments. Add to this centralized federal mismanagement of farming, education, medicine, insurance, banking and welfare. This is not capitalism! " # Literature # Government # Dance and Dancing

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Thomas B Macaulay : " Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from the birth as a paternal, or in other words a meddling government, a government which tells them what to read and say and eat and drink and wear. " # Literature # Government # Dance and Dancing

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Richard M Nixon : " For its part, Government will listen. We will strive to listen in new ways -- to the voices of quiet anguish, to voices that speak without words, the voices of the heart, to the injured voices, and the anxious voices, and the voices that have despaired of being heard. " # Literature # Government # Dance and Dancing

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Vaclav Havel: " Modern man must descend the spiral of his own absurdity to the lowest point; only then can he look beyond it. It is obviously impossible to get around it, jump over it, or simply avoid it." # Absurdity # Love # Politicians and Politics

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Vaclav Havel: " Human beings are compelled to live within a lie, but they can be compelled to do so only because they are in fact capable of living in this way. Therefore not only does the system alienate humanity, but at the same time alienated humanity supports this system as its own involuntary master plan, as a degenerate image of its own degeneration, as a record of people's own failure as individuals." # Alienation # Freedom # Power

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Vaclav Havel: " If every day a man takes orders in silence from an incompetent superior, if every day he solemnly performs ritual acts which he privately finds ridiculous, if he unhesitatingly gives answers to questionnaires which are contrary to his real opinions and is prepared to deny his own self in public, if he sees no difficulty in feigning sympathy or even affection where, in fact, he feels only indifference or aversion, it still does not mean that he has entirely lost the use of one of the basic human senses, namely, the sense of humiliation." # Submission # Love # Friends and Friendship

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Vaclav Havel: " Just as the constant increase of entropy is the basic law of the universe, so it is the basic law of life to be ever more highly structured and to struggle against entropy." # Decay # Law and Lawyers # Change

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Vaclav Havel: " You do not become a dissident just because you decide one day to take up this most unusual career. You are thrown into it by your personal sense of responsibility, combined with a complex set of external circumstances. You are cast out of the existing structures and placed in a position of conflict with them. It begins as an attempt to do your work well, and ends with being branded an enemy of society." # Dissent # Responsibility # Work

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Vaclav Havel: " Twenty or thirty years ago, in the army, we had a lot of obscure adventures, and years later we tell them at parties, and suddenly we realize that those two very difficult years of our lives have become lumped together into a few episodes that have lodged in our memory in a standardized form, and are always told in a standardized way, in the same words. But in fact that lump of memories has nothing whatsoever to do with our experience of those two years in the army and what it has made of us." # Anecdotes # Freedom # Power

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Vaclav Havel: " Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out." # Hope # Certainty # Optimism

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Vaclav Havel: " There's always something suspect about an intellectual on the winning side." # Intelligence and Intellectuals

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Vaclav Havel: " The law is only one of several imperfect and more or less external ways of defending what is better in life against what is worse. By itself, the law can never create anything better. Establishing respect for the law does not automatically ensure a better life for that, after all, is a job for people and not for laws and institutions." # Law and Lawyers # Politics # Life and Living

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Vaclav Havel: " The attempt to devote oneself to literature alone is a most deceptive thing, and often, paradoxically, it is literature that suffers for it." # Literature # Suffering # Paradox

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