"The attempts to command the climate and decide about the temperature on our planet are wrong and arrogant. I wrote a book about it which was published in English under the title Blue Planet in Green Shackles."

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Source : "DECKER: 5 Questions with President Vaclav Klaus". Interview with Brett M. Decker, www.washingtontimes.com. September 25, 2012.

Vaclav Klaus

#Book Quotes #Blue Quotes #Arrogant Quotes

“Don't live up to your stereotypes.”
“Bush is no conservative.”
“No one is immune from addiction; it afflicts people of all ages, races, classes, and professions.”
“Dogs don't know about beginnings, and they don't speculate on matters that occurred before their time. Dogs also don't know - or at least don't accept - the concept of death. With no concept of beginnings or endings dogs probably don't know that for people having a dog as a life companion provides a streak of light between two eternities of darkness.”
“gossip ... is only fiction produced by non-professionals.”
“The lore of our fathers is a fabric of sentences. In our hands it develops and changes, through more or less arbitrary and deliberate revisions and additions of our own, more or less directly occasioned by the continuing stimulation of our sense organs. It is a pale gray lore, black with fact and white with convention. But I have found no substantial reasons for concluding that there are any quite black threads in it, or any white ones.”
“If you take every challenge everyone has in their life and multiply it in severity you get what it's like in the life of an actor.”

Source : Interview with James Wood, gojimmygo.net. April 13, 2012.
“He never stopped wanting to save the world.”

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