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France can never accept that it is no longer a dominating power in the world of culture. This is true both of the French right and the French left. They keep thinking that Americans are primitive cowboys or farmers who do not understand anything.
~ Adam Michnik
Accept
American
Anything
Both
Cowboys
Culture
Dominating
Farmers
France
French
Keep
Left
Longer
Never
Power
Primitive
Right
Thinking
True
Understand
Who
World
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I consider that 9/11 was the day when war was started against my own work and against myself. Even though we are not sure of the links, Iraq was one of the countries that did not lower its flags in mourning on 9/11.
~ Adam Michnik
Against
Consider
Countries
Day
Did
Even
Flags
Iraq
Links
Lower
Mourning
My Own
Myself
Own
Started
Sure
Though
War
Work
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I think it's always dangerous to make political arguments in a religiously ideological way. And it's very dangerous to treat as traitors to the American nation those who think differently.
~ Adam Michnik
Always
American
Argument
Dangerous
Differently
I Think
Ideological
Make
Nation
Political
Think
Those
Traitors
Treat
Very
Way
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If you're powerful, you are much more likely to be blind and deaf to signals from outside.
~ Adam Michnik
Blind
Deaf
Likely
More
Much
Outside
Powerful
Signals
You
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Israel is the only country in the Middle East where Arabs can be elected to the parliament in a democratic election.
~ Adam Michnik
Arabs
Country
Democratic
East
Elected
Election
Israel
Middle
Middle East
Only
Only Country
Parliament
Where
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Poland is an ally of the United States of America. It was our duty to show that we are a reliable, loyal, and predictable ally. America needed our help, and we had to give it.
~ Adam Michnik
Ally
America
Duty
Give
Had
Help
Loyal
Needed
Our
Poland
Predictable
Reliable
Show
States
United
United States
United States Of America
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After the French Revolution, it was not the treason of the king that was in question; it was the existence of the king. You have to be very careful when you judge and execute somebody for being a symbol.
~ Adam Michnik
After
Being
Careful
Execute
Existence
French
French Revolution
Judge
King
Question
Revolution
Somebody
Symbol
Treason
Very
You
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An ethical action, like an unethical action, is usually analyzed by politicians purely in pragmatic terms.
~ Adam Michnik
Action
Ethical
Like
Politicians
Pragmatic
Purely
Terms
Unethical
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Every revolution, bloody or not, has two phases. The first phase is defined by the struggle for freedom, the second by the struggle for power and revenge on the votaries of the ancien regime.
~ Adam Michnik
Bloody
Defined
Every
First
First Phase
Freedom
Phase
Phases
Power
Regime
Revenge
Revolution
Second
Struggle
Two
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For those of us imprisoned in Poland, the Prague Spring was a harbinger of hope.
~ Adam Michnik
Hope
Imprisoned
Poland
Prague
Spring
Those
Us
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I believe that a man can only be useful to his country when he can look at it clearly.
~ Adam Michnik
Believe
Clearly
Country
He
His
I Believe
I Believe That
Look
Man
Only
Useful
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I do know that you have to choose between the logic of reconciliation and the logic of justice. Pure justice leads to new civil war. I prefer the negotiable revolution.
~ Adam Michnik
Between
Choose
Civil
Civil War
Justice
Know
Leads
Logic
New
Prefer
Pure
Reconciliation
Revolution
War
You
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I do not accept being a prisoner of fear. Of Communism, of fascism. That, one can bear. But of one's fear. No. Never.
~ Adam Michnik
Accept
Bear
Being
Communism
Fascism
Fear
Never
Prisoner
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In Czechoslovakia in 1968, communist reformers appealed to democratic ideals that were deeply rooted in the country's pre-second world war past.
~ Adam Michnik
Appealed
Communist
Country
Deeply
Democratic
Ideals
Past
Rooted
War
Were
World
World War
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Pacifism as a mass movement aims to avoid suffering; pacifists often say that no cause is worth suffering or dying for. The ethos of Solidarity is based on an opposite premise - that there are causes worth suffering and dying for.
~ Adam Michnik
Aims
Avoid
Based
Cause
Causes
Dying
Ethos
Mass
Movement
Often
Opposite
Premise
Say
Solidarity
Suffering
Worth
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Politics and ethics belong to different worlds.
~ Adam Michnik
Belong
Different
Different Worlds
Ethics
Politics
Worlds
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Politics is the art of achieving political goals - of achieving what is possible in a given situation - that is, in a situation that has its conditions and its limits.
~ Adam Michnik
Achieving
Art
Conditions
Given
Goals
Limits
Political
Politics
Possible
Situation
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Politics is the art of realizing what there is to realize.
~ Adam Michnik
Art
Politics
Realize
Realizing
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The ethics of journalism are one thing. Another thing is the ethics of business.
~ Adam Michnik
Another
Business
Ethics
Journalism
One Thing
Thing
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The main difference between the Prague Spring and the Velvet Revolution was that the former was mostly the work of Communist party members and others who wanted to bring about 'socialism with a human face.'
~ Adam Michnik
About
Between
Bring
Communist
Communist Party
Difference
Face
Former
Human
Human Face
Main
Members
Mostly
Others
Party
Prague
Revolution
Socialism
Spring
Velvet
Wanted
Who
Work
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