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Aktualizováno 11.9.2022:Dnes jsem se podepsal do kondolenční knihy na Staroměstské radnici v Praze: „Jen velké osobnosti mohou být majákem světla pro většinu bloudící ve tmě.“

Česká média  ignorovala 21. výročí barbarského útoku teroristů na USA – 11.9.2001. Vzpomeňme téměř 3000 nevinných obětí. JŠ

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O Královně Elisabeth II. vypovídají její myšlenky více, než tisíce informací

"Dnes potřebujeme zvláštní druh odvahy. Ne takovou, jakou potřebujeme v bitvě, ale takovou, která nás nutí postavit se za vše, o čem víme, že je správné, za vše, co je pravdivé a čestné. Potřebujeme takový druh odvahy, který dokáže odolat rafinované korupci cyniků, abychom mohli světu ukázat, že se nebojíme budoucnosti."

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"Vždycky bylo snadné nenávidět a ničit. Budovat a opatrovat je mnohem těžší."

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„Nelze pochybovat, že kritika prospívá každému, lidem i institucím. Avšak výtky neztratí nic na své síle, když budou formulovány s humorem a především s taktem a porozuměním.“

Updated 11.9.2022:Today I signed the book of condolences at the Old Town Hall in Prague: "Only great personalities can be a beacon of light for the majority wandering in darkness."

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Her thoughts say more about Queen Elisabeth II than a thousand pieces of information.

"Today we need a special kind of courage. Not the kind we need in battle, but the kind that makes us stand up for all that we know is right, for all that is true and honorable. We need the kind of courage that can withstand the subtle corruption of the cynics so that we can show the world that we are not afraid of the future."

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"It has always been easy to hate and destroy. To build and cherish is much harder."

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"There can be no doubt that criticism benefits everyone, people and institutions. But criticism loses none of its power when it is couched in humour and, above all, with tact and understanding."

The sad lives of Nerissa and Katherine.

Every family has secrets, but the Queen's probably has more than the usual. One of them is the mysterious fate of the Queen's cousins, Nerissa and Katherine, daughters of John Bowes-Lyon, the brother of the Queen's mother. Their lives have also been brought to the attention of the creators of The Crown. In the seventh episode of the fourth season, they referred to the two mentally ill sisters who were committed to a mental hospital by their family.

Nerissa was born in 1919 and Katherine in 1926. Both were diagnosed with mental retardation shortly after birth. In 1941, they were committed to the care of Earlswood Hospital in Redhill, which was overcrowded and reportedly had disastrous hygiene conditions.

That Queen Elizabeth II's two cousins lived such sad lives was not the only cruelty that befell them. The Royal Burke's Peerage records that one of the sisters died in 1940 and the other 21 years later. That was a lie. Nerissa died in 1989 and Katherine in 2014.