Tomas Garrigue Masaryk quotes
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“As many languages you know, as many times you are a human being”
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“Wherever the trout are, it's beautiful.”
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“Zionism has gained my full sympathy and I appreciate it much higher than what is called nationalism in modern France. It is a progressive movement, a reawakening, of which I expect a lot for the entire civilization.”
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“Dictators always look good until the last minutes.”
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“We shall always be a small minority in the world, but, when a small nation accomplishes something with its limited means, what it achieves has an immense and exceptional value, like the widow's mite. It is a deliberate and discerning love of a nation that appeals to me, not the indiscriminate love that assumes everything to be right because it bears a national label. Love of one's own nation should not entail non-love of other nations. Institutions by themselves are not enough.”
-- Tomas Garrigue Masaryk
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“The true Tarot is symbolism; it speaks no other language and offers no other signs.”
Source : A. E. Waite (2012). “The Pictorial Key to the Tarot”, p.2, Courier Corporation
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“Perhaps we should keep our monsters about us, lest we become them ourselves.”
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“When a monkey nibbles on a weenis, it's funny in any language.”
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“Nationality is the creative power of human culture, culture is the creative power of nationality.”
Source : "Naţionalitatea în artă ("Nationality in Art")". Naţionalitatea în artă ("Nationality in Art") by A. C. Cuza, Bucureşti: Cartea Romaneasca, 1905.
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