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Lenka Příplatová

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Evolutionary biologist, English-Czech translator and avid reader of pretty much every type of book I can lay my hands on.

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SprÃ¡vnej PraÅ¾Ã¡k jedinÄ s LÃtaÄkou

Hele, miláčci, k tomu jízdnýmu v Praze. Ale i obecně k „problému s nezodpovědnou, ožralou chudobou“. Protože se zdá, že to někteří za žádnou cenu nechápou (nebo nechtějí pochopit).

Problém přece není v tom, že 10 Kč denně je brnkačka.
Problém je v tom, že u nás řada lidí nemá na jednorázovej výdaj přes 3,5 tis. A potom přeplatěj několikanásobek – už teď, před zdražením.

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	90 minut v nebi - Pravdivý příběh života a smrti by Don Piper, Cecil Murphey, Lenka Příplatová (Goodreads Author) (-Translator) 3.99 avg rating — 104,768 ratings — published 2004 — 72 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Darwinův původ druhů by Janet Browne, Lenka Příplatová (Goodreads Author) (-Translator), Eva Příplatová (-Translator) 3.76 avg rating — 659 ratings — published 2006 — 41 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Kůň a jeho řeč: všechno o tom, jak porozumět chování koně by Lesley Bayley, Lenka Příplatová (Goodreads Author) (Translator) 3.56 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 2002 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Pohled z oblak - Afrika by Paolo Novaresio, Eva Příplatová (Translator), Lenka Příplatová (Goodreads Author) (Translator) 4.25 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2006 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Nejbohatší muž, jaký kdy žil by Steven K. Scott, Lenka Příplatová (Goodreads Author) (-Translator) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2006	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Lenka Příplatová wrote a new blog post SprÃ¡vnej PraÅ¾Ã¡k jedinÄ s LÃtaÄkou Hele, miláčci, k tomu jízdnýmu v Praze. Ale i obecně k „problému s nezodpovědnou, ožralou chudobou“. Protože se zdá, že to někteří za žádnou cenu nech Read more of this blog post »
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A solid read with enough depth to make it stick. Will isn’t your typical hero—his decisions often land him in trouble, and that stubbornness ends up feeling earned during tough moral crossroads. The book works best when exploring those hard questions ...more
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A light, charming romance that doesn't pretend to be more than it is — and succeeds exactly because of that. While it won't stand shoulder to shoulder with more ambitious literary works, within its genre it’s surprisingly solid, well-paced, and genui ...more
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“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

tags: books, humor

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“Religion is based primarily upon fear. It is partly the terror of the unknown and partly as the wish to feel that you have a kind of elder brother who will stand by you in all your troubles and disputes. Fear of the mysterious, fear of defeat, fear of death. Fear is the parent of cruelty, and therefore it is no wonder if cruelty and religion have gone hand in hand. It is because fear is at the basis of those two things. In this world we can now begin a little to understand things, and a little to master them by help of science, which has forced its way step by step against the opposition of all the old precepts. Science can help us to get over this craven fear in which mankind has lived for so many generations. Science can teach us, and I think our own hearts can teach us, no longer to look around for imaginary supports, no longer to invent allies in the sky, but rather to look to our own efforts here below to make this world a fit place to live in, instead of the place that the churches in all these centuries have made it.”
― Bertrand Russell, Why I Am Not a Christian and Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects

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“And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that He would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt His existence”
― Bertrand Russell

tags: god, religion

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“Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'”
― Isaac Asimov

tags: democracy, elite, elitism, elitist, voter, voting

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“Book collecting is an obsession, an occupation, a disease, an addiction, a fascination, an absurdity, a fate. It is not a hobby. Those who do it must do it. Those who do not do it, think of it as a cousin of stamp collecting, a sister of the trophy cabinet, bastard of a sound bank account and a weak mind.”
― Jeanette Winterson

tags: books, obsession

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