Be these people either Conservatives or Socialists, Yellows or Reds, the most important thing is — and that is the point I want to stress — that all … - Karel Čapek

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Be these people either Conservatives or Socialists, Yellows or Reds, the most important thing is — and that is the point I want to stress — that all of them are right in the plain and moral sense of the word. . . I ask whether it is not possible to see in the present social conflict of the world an analogous struggle between two, three, five equally serious verities and equally generous idealisms? I think it is possible, and that is the most dramatic element in modern civilization, that a human truth is opposed to another human truth no less human, ideal against ideal, positive worth against worth no less positive, instead of the struggle being as we are so often told, one between noble truth and vile selfish error.

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About Karel Čapek

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.

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Pen Names: K. Č. B. Č. Karel Plocek Karel Vašek
Alternative Names: Karel Capek

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Поблагодарих му сърдечно и когато се скри зад завоя, аз прескочих стобора на градинката и с неговия собствен бел изкопах двете сини хризантеми. Откраднах ги, разбирате ли? Аз съм честен човек, в живота си съм крал само седем пъти: и то винаги цветя.

Mnoho lidí stárne jen z pohodlnosti, že už nechtějí nic dělat. Nestárnout, to není jen udržet se, ale pořád růst, pořád získávat; každý rok má být, jako by člověk vystoupil o příčli na žebříku výš.

Noon. We have to blow the whistle because the Robots don’t know when to stop work.

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