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Yes, you live with your feet in the mud and there's no time to be thinking about how you got in or how you're going to get out.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Age: 89 †
Born: 1918
Born: December 11
Died: 2008
Died: January 1
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Of course God is endlessly multi-dimensional so every religion that exists on earth represents some face, some side of God.
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If you live in a graveyard, you can't weep for everyone.
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Prayers are like those appeals of ours. Either they don't get through or they're returned with 'rejected' scrawled across 'em.
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This is a grave danger: the stoppage of information between the parts of the planet. Contemporary science knows that such stoppage is the way of entropy, of universal destruction.
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I have grown used to the fact that public repentance is the most unacceptable option for the modern politician.
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The next war... may well bury Western civilization forever.
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My wish for you... is that your skeptic-eclectic brain be flooded with the light of truth.
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