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“Climate alarmists believe in their own omnipotency, in knowing better than millions of rationally behaving men and women what is right or wrong, in the possibility to give adequate instructions to hundreds of millions of individuals and institutions and the resulting compliance or non-compliance of those who are supposed to follow these instructions.”

Quote by Vaclav Klaus

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Václav Klaus, born on June 19, 1941, is a former President of the Czech Republic. He has a strong academic background in economics and political science, serving as a professor of economics at the University of Economics in Prague. During his presidency, Klaus was committed to promoting economic reforms in the Czech Republic and the process of European integration. more

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