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Karel Capek has 38 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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I certainly don't know if you could claim that every theft is wrong, but I'll prove to you that every theft is…
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You can have a revolution wherever you like, except in a government office; even were the world to come to an end,…
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You ought to know that October is the first Spring month.
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If dogs could talk, perhaps we would find it as hard to get along with them as we do with people.
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Let no one think that real gardening is a bucolic and meditative occupation. It is an insatiable passion, like everything else to…
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There came into the world an unlimited abundance of everything people need. But people need everything except unlimited abundance.
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Among human beings, a cat is merely a cat; among cats, a cat is a prowling shadow in a jungle.
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I've found a place that would amaze you. People used to live there, but now it's all overgrown and no one goes…
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The average cooking in the average hotel for the average Englishman explains to a large extent the English bleakness and taciturnity. Nobody…
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I find that a real gardener is not a man who cultivates flowers; he is a man who cultivates the soil. He…
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Cognition is not fighting, but once someone knows a lot, he will have much to fight for, so much that he will…
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Man will never be enslaved by machinery if the man tending the machine be paid enough.
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Within these premises, the only thing one can be is an impeccable mediator. One is not the player in this cosmic match…
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The isolated Pawn casts gloom over the entire chessboard
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Self-confidence is very important. If you don't think you can win, you will take cowardly decisions in the crucial moments, out of…
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Ukraine, a new and important space on the Eurasian chessboard, is a geopolitical pivot because its very existence as an independent country…
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