Vaclav Havel
Related I'm, you know, having begun my public service in state government. I very much respect the autho... ALBERTO GONZALES EDITH STEIN To have the cognitive abilities to do research and development is vital to a forever expanding world... GARY F EVANS... JOSEPH PULITZER Power tends to protect itself merely to maintain its own status and control. Principle gives up powe... DAN WEBSTER JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU Stuck in the midst of a public relations quagmire that no other company faces, Wal-Mart realizes tha... CHRIS KOFINIS If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The l... JOSEPH GOEBBELS Wealth itself is not a bad idea provided it is directed towards public good. So is power. However, t... ANANDA A Ritual to Read to Each OtherWILLIAM STAFFORD FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT ROBERT F. KENNEDY THEODORE ROOSEVELT It is unfortunately none too well understood that, just as the State has no money of its own, so it ... ALBERT J. NOCK WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN JOHN SUNUNU ANTHONY LICCIONE The problem is when you go to get the records at a state or city department, each of its divisions h... CARROLL COX Friendship is a double-edged sword one side it can be great and true but the other side it spells be... GARY F EVANS... HENRY DAVID THOREAU The State acquires power... and because of its insatiable lust for power it is incapable of giving u... FRANK CHODOROV The web of influence which News Corporation spun in Britain, which effectively bent politicians, pol... THOMAS WATSON, JR. [T]he state should not impose a preferred way of life, but should leave its citizens as free as poss... MICHAEL J. SANDEL WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Whoever can conquer the street will one day conquer the state, for every form of power politics and ... JOSEPH GOEBBELS JAMES MADISON CHLOE THURLOW HENRY DAVID THOREAU DEYTH BANGER RICHARD YATES DON DELILLO EVO MORALES ELEANOR ROOSEVELT GERMANY KENT To restore and keep the public's confidence in the integrity of their government, state governme... JOHN LYNCH How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful. EVANS G. VALENS Every present state of a simple substance is the natural consequence of its preceding state, in such... GOTTFRIED LEIBNIZ Never should a nation's legacy be measured by its might nor power. Instead, by the way in which it p... ANDREW THOMAS WELBORN I suggest that a provision expressly state that the commission will not interfere in any way in the ... CLAUDE JORDA The market is still waiting for HSBC results, which will have a big impact on the direction of the m... ANDREW TO Property shares had a technical rebound, but interest rate concerns will still affect properties unt... ANDREW TO Bank of China's results were quite good; double-digit growth can be taken as good results for a bank... ANDREW TO The index tried to challenge 18,000 but failed, so that triggered profit taking. Tokyo's slide also ... ANDREW TO Trading seems to be focusing on selective counters because investors are cautious amid interest rate... ANDREW TO We're seeing a minor technical rebound after Wall Street rebounded from two days of losses. The key ... ANDREW TO Some investors have returned to pick up the stock at bargain prices. ANDREW TO I think the take-up for the placement is not too good and other property developers may be discourag... ANDREW TO We are afraid that our freedoms and liberties will be infringed in the future. ANDREW TO I think there was some minor selling pressure on telecom stocks as the market continued to see a wea... ANDREW TO WILLIAM HAZLITT LEWIS CARROLL The sad heart needs work to do. JOAN BAUER HELMUT SCHMIDT JAMES INHOFE Any religion-based state has a mission to limit the minds of its people, to fight the developments o... RAIF BADAWI Article Six of Maryland's Declaration of Rights states that when the state is oppressing its people ... CHRIS GOODMAN ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH EDWARD ABBEY More than any woman I ever knew, she comforted.' -Mrs. Huxley about Emma DEBORAH HEILIGMAN That's silly,' said Martha. 'Friends should always tell each other the truth. JAMES MARSHALL JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN JEFFREY R. HOLLAND And we learned that you don't have to be famous or rich or physically healthy to be a leader. You ju... JOAN BAUER THOMAS S. MONSON Beauty—real everlasting beauty—lives not on our faces, but in our attitude and our actions. It l... JUSTINA CHEN ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE An independent state does not pay too dear a price for its independence in accepting the sufferings ... THEODOR MOMMSEN MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE JOHN C. CALHOUN I hate that just because you happen to be good at something,people automatically think that's what m... AMBER SMITH [MGE is also launching a lifetime warranty program on its external power supplies.] With extreme gam... ALAN HUNTER NICHOLAS SPARKS STEPHEN CHBOSKY NICHOLAS SPARKS NICHOLAS SPARKS HARPER LEE HARPER LEE ELIOT SPITZER The scientific method gives us
information by testing and repeating observable things so that we
can... LEWIS N. ROE Taking the State wherever found, striking into its history at any point, one sees no way to differen... ALBERT JAY NOCK RICHARD WAGNER FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT SAMUEL P. HUNTINGTON Lying is a cooperative act. Think about it. A lie has no power whatsoever by its mere utterance. Its... PAMELA MEYER VENKATRAMAN RAMAKRISHNAN Each state, so that it does not abridge the great fundamental rights belonging, under the Constituti... LYMAN TRUMBULL DAVID BLUNKETT C. JOYBELL C. The first and foremost human right or fundamental right is the right to exist. APURVA GAGLANI If we ever put research into what the subconscious is we could probably come to the conclusion that ... GARY F EVANS... i know im not the girl you wanted. not the one you want to hear from. but what you see is what you g... SIMI GREWAL Its purpose is for members of the church, as well as the public, to search their family trees. DEANDA LINE TONY CAMPOLO JOHN LOCKE PAULINE MAROIS THOMAS HOBBES States like Maryland should be applauded, not sued, for trying to address the tragic fact that in st... CHRIS KOFINIS ARTHUR MILLER C. JOYBELL C.
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The state has got to be its own master. The modalities of civic life may not be prescribed for it th... 
We are a democracy, and there is only one way to get a democracy on its feet in the matter of its in... 
As soon as public service ceases to be the chief business of the citizens, and they would rather ser... 
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The Constitution expressly and exclusively vests in the Legislature the power of declaring a state o... 
Some people never take a chance and never know what it's like to live life to the full. 
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The government will exercise its right to state ownership of Bolivia's hydrocarbons. 
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Kindness is universal. Sometimes being kind allows others to see the goodness in humanity through yo... 
The public is so in awe of its own opinion that it never dares to form any, but catches up the first... 
How should I know?" said Alice, surprised at her own courage. "It's no business of mine."
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A country's adhering to the rule of law does not mean that its citizens will not do bad things. 
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