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Beat a dog once and you only have to show him the whip.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Age: 89 †
Born: 1918
Born: December 11
Died: 2008
Died: January 1
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After all, man is a complicated being, why should he be explainable by logic?
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Your friend will argue with you.
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To preserve his life, should a man pay everything that gives it color, scent and excitement?
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Mistakes are a great educator when one is honest enough to admit them and willing to learn from them
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The October Revolution is a myth generated by the winners, the Bolsheviks, and swallowed whole by progressive circles in the West.
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