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If you wanted to put the world to rights, who should you begin with: yourself or others?
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Age: 89 †
Born: 1918
Born: December 11
Died: 2008
Died: January 1
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Let us drive away those cruel, greedy oppressors, governments, and the new ones, having just laid aside grenades and rifles, will be just and understanding. Far from it.
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Pride grows in the human heart like lard on a pig.
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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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For me faith is the foundation and support of one's life.
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Truth seldom is pleasant it is almost invariably bitter.
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Even the most rational approach to ethics is defenseless if there isn't the will to do what is right.
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The task of the artist is to sense more keenly than others the harmony of the world, the beauty and the outrage of what man has done to it, and poignantly to let people know.
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Still, everybody wants to eat.
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Economic growth is not only unncessary, but ruinous.
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A hard life improves the vision.
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European democracy was originally imbued with a sense of Christian responsibility and self-discipline, but these spiritual principles have been gradually losing their force. Spiritual independence is being pressured on all sides by the dictatorship of self-satisfied vulgarity, of the latest fads, and of group interests.
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Let your memory be your travel bag.
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I will tell you something else: it is a major responsibility not only of portraiture but of all human communication for each of us to help everyone else discover the best that is in him.
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To his and everybody else's way of thinking, you should build a house with your own hands before you start talking about being an engineer.
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... once you get up steam, you are carried helplessly along.
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