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When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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For a country to have a great writer is like having a second government. That is why no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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If one is forever cautious, can one remain a human being?
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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Blow the dust off the clock. Your watches are behind the times. Throw open the heavy curtains which are so dear to you - you do not even suspect that the day has already dawned outside.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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Man has set for himself the goal of conquering the world but in the processes loses his soul.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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Any man who has once acclaimed violence as his method must inexorably choose falsehood as his principle.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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The one good thing about repeating your mistakes is that you know when to cringe
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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In our village, folks say God crumbles up the old moon into stars.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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How can you expect a man who's warm to understand one who's cold?
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the 20th century, and more than anywhere else this disease is reflected in the press.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he's no longer in your power - he's free again.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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I am not virtuous. Our sons will be if we shed enough blood to give them the right to be.
Jean-Paul Sartre
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It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor.
Max Eastman
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The full potentialities of human fury cannot be reached until a friend of both parties tactfully intervenes.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The only words that ever satisfied me as describing nature are the terms used in fairy books, charm, spell, enchantment they express the arbitrariness of the fact and its mystery.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Any little issue - Miss Universe, or whatever it may be - [Donald Trump] is completely unpredictable, he'll go off into outer space.
Noam Chomsky
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Contrary to popular belief, the past was not more eventful than the present. If it seems so it is because when you look backward things that happened years apart are telescoped together, and because very few of your memories come to you genuinely virgin.
George Orwell
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What, by a word lacking even in grammar, is called amorality, is a thing that does not exist. If you are unwilling to submit to any norm, you have, nolens volens , to submit to the norm of denying all morality, and this is not amoral, but immoral. It is a negative morality which preserves the empty form of the other.
Jose Ortega y Gasset
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Don't be afraid. There are exquisite things in store for you. This is merely the beginning.
Oscar Wilde
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I have a theory of statistics: if you can double them or halve them and they still work, they are really good statistics.
John Ralston Saul
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Yet this is trash that the Church imposes upon the world as the Word of God this is the collection of lies and contradictions called the Holy Bible! This is the rubbish called Revealed Religion!
Thomas Paine
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Well, Ben Rogers, if I was as ignorant as you I wouldn't let on.
Mark Twain
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Even the most rational approach to ethics is defenseless if there isn't the will to do what is right.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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Ale is meat, drink and cloth it will make a cat speak and a wise man dumb.
Jonathan Swift
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