"Through the inspiration of Vaclav's words, the courage of his dissidence and the integrity of his leadership, Czechoslovakia successfully transitioned from an authoritarian state to a free democracy at the heart of Europe."

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Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

Michael D. Higgins

#Integrity Quotes #Inspiration Quotes #Heart Quotes

“We cannot change what happened anymore. The only thing we can do is to learn from the past and to realize what discrimination and persecution of innocent people means. I believe that it's everyone's responsibility to fight prejudice.”
“None of us was born knowing or wise; but men become wise by consideration, observation, experience.”
“Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show their absence!”

Source : "Notes On Structured Programming" by Edsger Dijkstra, April 1970.
“The only limits we have are the limits we give ourselves.”
“You can't get spoiled if you do your own ironing.”
“If you just do a Google search and type in 'smoking' or 'lung cancer', you will be barraged with never ending facts and numbers, like how one in every three Americans is affected by lung disease and how COPD is the third leading cause of death and if you get lung cancer the odds are 95% that you will die.”
“It's such a luxury to be able to be happy about going to work in the morning.”

Source : Interview with Spence D., www.ign.com. March 31, 2001.
“I've thought about it more than a thousand times. It was a thousand times worse, so I suppressed it, I suppressed it to death. The moment that I heard that Meahri was leaving, I thought the world was ending because at that moment, I was full of regret. I was avoiding, not thinking, and pretending it wasn't what my heart was hoping for earlier. I'm sorry, because I've made Meahri cry so many times. I'll do well. I'll take care of her forever. Tae-sang, this is my first and last request of you. Just this once, forgive me.”

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