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Mistakes are a great educator when one is honest enough to admit them and willing to learn from them
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Age: 89 †
Born: 1918
Born: December 11
Died: 2008
Died: January 1
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Any man who has once acclaimed violence as his method must inexorably choose falsehood as his principle.
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A whole week, a single campaign, a month, a week, even a day was far more than enough to cut a company or platoon to ribbons or cripple a man for life: it needed only a quarter of an hour.
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I have always insisted on the need for local self-government for Russia, but I never opposed this model to Western democracy. On the contrary, I have tried to convince my fellow citizens by citing the examples of highly effective local self-government systems in Switzerland and New England, both of which I saw first-hand.
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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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If you live in a graveyard, you can't weep for everyone.
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... the inexorable lesson of centuries: suffering must be borne there is no way out.
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It is in the nature of the human being to seek a justification for his actions.
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You took my freedom away a long time ago and you can't give it back because you haven't got it yourself.
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The next war... may well bury Western civilization forever.
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In keeping silent about evil, in burying it so deep within us that no sign of it appears on the surface, we are implanting it, and it will rise up a thousandfold in the future. When we neither punish nor reproach evildoers . . . we are ripping the foundations of justice from beneath new generations.
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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 earlier, the more fun. Why put it off? It’s the atomic age!
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One can build the Empire State Building, discipline the Prussian army, make a state hierarchy mightier than God, yet fail to overcome the unaccountable superiority of certain human beings.
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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.
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When we feel that we are not sufficiently respected, we should ask ourselves whether we are living as we should.
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Why should I trust you? We haven't drunk from the same bowl of soup.
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In all probability an outburst of desperation in the midst of general submissiveness will always help.
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