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In some instances, the accuracy of past-life memories can be objectively verified, sometimes with remarkable detail. Stanislav Grof

Memories Sometimes Detail Some Objectively Remarkable Verified Accuracy

I read Freud's Introductory Lectures in Psychoanalysis in basically one sitting. I decided to enroll in medical school. It was almost like a conversion experience. Stanislav Grof

Experience School Enroll Introductory Almost Like Read Freud Lectures Sitting Psychoanalysis Decided Conversion Medical Medical School Basically

I have taken part in ceremonies with North American and Mexican shamans, as well as Brazilian ceremonies. Stanislav Grof

Part Taken Well Mexican North North American American Brazilian Ceremonies

Dying people in pre-industrial cultures typically died in the context of an extended family, clan, or tribe. Stanislav Grof

Family People Tribe Clan Context Cultures Died Dying Extended Extended Family

Tennis players need to be very focused and very intense, and I can show tennis players are not just hitting the little yellow ball and moving in between the white lines. I'm always trying to show my personality outside of the court. Tomas Berdych

Personality White Focused Outside Tennis Tennis Players Between Court Ball Always Lines Yellow Very Trying Intense Hitting Just In-Between Little Moving Show Players Need

There's always something suspect about an intellectual on the winning side. Vaclav Havel

Side About Something Winning Always Intellectual Suspect

I think it's important for one to take a certain distance from oneself. Vaclav Havel

Important Think Distance Oneself Take Certain

As soon as man began considering himself the source of the highest meaning in the world and the measure of everything, the world began to lose its human dimension, and man began to lose control of it. Vaclav Havel

Man World Lose Control Everything Considering Dimension Highest Soon Himself Source Began Human Meaning Measure

I also helped write the five-page statement of principles that Civic Forum issued in late November. That was the first public expression of what the new government wanted to do. Vaclav Klaus

Government November First Late Statement Civic Write New Also Principles New Government Wanted Public Forum Helped Expression

I never intended to be a politician or office-seeker. Vaclav Klaus

Politician Never Intended

We served on the editorial board of a literary monthly called Face in 1968 and 1969. He was a young writer, and I was also interested in broad cultural issues. We agreed on all major issues and became friends. Vaclav Klaus

Face Young Broad Monthly Writer He Major Also Became Editorial Issues Cultural Cultural Issues Friends Literary Board Interested Agreed Served

Nevertheless, there is another threat on the horizon. I see this threat in environmentalism which is becoming a new dominant ideology, if not a religion. Its main weapon is raising the alarm and predicting the human life endangering climate change based on man-made global warming. Vaclav Klaus

Life Environmental Religion Change Ideology Weapon Horizon Threat See Main Environmentalism Nevertheless New Global Global Warming Another Becoming Climate Climate Change Dominant Man-Made Human Predicting Which Warming Human Life Based Alarm Raising

I live in Europe and care about democracy and sovereignty of nation states there. Vaclav Klaus

Democracy Care Nation Live States About Sovereignty Europe

I do not consider the Lisbon Treaty to be a good thing for Europe, for the freedom of Europe, or for the Czech Republic. Vaclav Klaus

Good Freedom Consider Good Thing Republic Europe Czech Czech Republic Thing Treaty

I'm absolutely convinced that the very small global warming we are experiencing is the result of natural causes. It's a cyclical phenomenon in the history of the Earth. The role of man is very small, almost negligible. Vaclav Klaus

Killing animals and eating meat have been significant components of human evolution that had a synergistic relationship with other key attributes that have made us human, with larger brains, smaller guts, bipedalism, and language. Vaclav Smil

Our increasingly electrified, electronic, and data-driven society places steadily rising demand on reliable baseload power - that is, on electricity available 24/7/365. Servers never sleep, nor does air conditioning during hot nights, and in Asia's megacities, subways and electric trains take only brief naps between midnight and 5 A.M. Vaclav Smil

Power Society Nights Increasingly Our Air Air Conditioning Reliable Steadily Rising Only Take Never Hot Between Demand Naps Does Nor Conditioning Trains Places Midnight Available Asia Electric Electricity Electrified Electronic Brief Sleep

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