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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Age: 89 †
Born: 1918
Born: December 11
Died: 2008
Died: January 1
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We have to condemn publicly the very idea that some people have the right to repress others... When we neither punish nor reproach evildoers ... we are ripping the foundations of justice from beneath new generations.
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The price of cowardice will only be evil. We shall reap courage and victory only when we dare to make sacrifices.
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Only those who decline to scramble up the career ladder are interesting as human beings. Nothing is more boring than a man with a career.
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The meaning of earthly existence lies not, as we have grown used to thinking, in prospering, but in the development of the soul...
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Even if we are spared destruction by war, our lives will have to change if we want to save life from self-destruction.
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Talent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing.
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Violence does not and cannot flourish by itself it is inevitably intertwined with lying.
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A fish does not campaign against fisheries-it only tries to slip through the mesh.
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The fewer limitations the artist imposes on his work, the less chance he has for artistic success.
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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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You get no thanks from your belly-it always forgets what you've just done for it and comes begging again the next day.
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When I returned to Russia in 1994, the Western world and its states were practically being worshipped. Admittedly, this was caused not so much by real knowledge or a conscious choice, but by the natural disgust with the Bolshevik regime and its anti-Western propaganda.
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If state, party and social policy will not be based on morality, then mankind has no future to speak of.
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It's true that private enterprise is extremely flexible, But its only good within very narrow limits. If private enterprise isn't held in an iron grip it gives birth to people who are no better than beasts, those stock-exchange people with greedy appetites beyond restraint.
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It makes me happier, more secure, to think that I do not have to plan and manage everything for myself, that I am only a sword made sharp to smite the unclean forces, an enchanted sword to cleave and disperse them. Grant, O Lord, that I may not break as I strike! Let me not fall from Thy hand!
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The salvation of mankind lies only in making everything the concern of all.
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