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It is a foible of our human nature that when we have an extremely unpleasant experience, it gives us...

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The Absolute at Large

A garden is never finished. In that sense it is like the human world and all human undertakings.

The Gardener's Year

They all had a thousand good economic and political reasons why they couldn’t stop. I’m not a politi...

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War with the Newts

Everyone has the best of feelings towards mankind in general, but not towards the individual man. We...

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The Absolute at Large

Well people are just one species too, aren't they. And it's never stopped them fighting with each ot...

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Just imagine the silence in the world, if people talked only what they knew

I had written the sentence, 'You mustn't think that the evolution that gave rise to us was the only ...

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You can have a revolution wherever you like, except in a government office; even were the world to c...

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Karel Čapek

Writer

Born: 1890-01-09

Died: 1938-12-25

Karel Čapek (January 9, 1890 – December 25, 1938) was a Czech author and playwright, who introduced and made popular the word robot as a word for artificial human beings, which first appeared in his play R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots) in 1920.More