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“Anthropologically speaking, the attitude of women toward chaos is preventative: they clean so as not to have to. The logic may be debatable, but it does get results. On the other hand, the attitude of men is curative: they clean only when they feel directly threatened by chaos.”
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“Dyk měl ve zvyku pronášet sentence z vlastního kadlubu, které krášlil podvodnými, zpravidla biblickými zdroji. Už dávno pochopil, že v Česku se za nejzazší projev inteligence považuje opakování toho, co už někdo někdy řekl. Kdysi, v dobách, kdy sbíral po parcích brouky, se ke svým sentencím hlásil („…jak já vždycky říkám“) a nikdy se mu nedostalo jiné reakce než rozpačitého úsměvu. Jednou ho napadlo dodat: „Kniha Rút, 4,6“ – a hle, pohledy vůkol zazářily, ženské uznale, mužské závistivě. Od té doby tak činil pokaždé. „Noc je předzvěstí jitra. Leviticus 2, 10,“ pravil zvedaje se ze židle a opouštěje podnikový večírek. „Kopej v písku a nalezneš sebe sama. Kazatel 17, 5,“ nabádal kolegyni v práci, na niž si dělal zálusk. „Otec mocným hlasem volá, běda, syn jej neslyší. Gilgameš, zpěv třetí,“ utěšoval souseda, který si stěžoval na chování pubescentního potomka.”
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“He had dedicated his life to humanity and the individual, the individual and humanity. Had he been born a few centuries earlier, he might have been Francis of Assisi or Bartholomé de las Casas; in early-seventies Communist Czechoslovakia, he was inevitably taken for an ass.”
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“Although it was true, the younger they were the more irritating he found them, in accordance with the simple rule that the more recent their date of birth, the longer they would pollute the earth with their presence. Old people were no more appetitlich than the young, but they did have one mitigating quality: they wouldn't be kicking around for long.”
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