"I really do inhabit a system in which words are capable of shaking the entire structure of government, where words can prove mightier than ten military divisions.“


-Vaclav Havel

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I really do inhabit a system in which words are capable of shaking the entire structure of government, where words can prove mightier than ten military divisions.

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