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Surrender one hair, and you'll end up beardless.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Age: 89 †
Born: 1918
Born: December 11
Died: 2008
Died: January 1
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A great disaster had befallen Russia: Men have forgotten God that's why all this has happened.
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After all, man is a complicated being, why should he be explainable by logic?
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Why can't you understand? The stars fall down now and then. The gaps have to be filled.
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Whenever the tissue of life is woven of legalistic relationships, this creates an atmosphere of spiritual mediocrity that paralyzes a person's noblest impulses.
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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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... but food eaten quickly isn't food.
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Still, everybody wants to eat.
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Education doesn't make you smarter.
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Communist propaganda would sometimes include statements such as we include almost all the commandments of the Gospel in our ideology. The difference is that the Gospel asks all this to be achieved through love, through self-limitation, but socialism only uses coercion. This is one point.
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A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.
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Just as King Midas turned everything to gold, Stalin turned everything to mediocrity.
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It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes... we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions - especially selfish ones.
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Every man always has handy a dozen glib little reasons why he is right not to sacrifice himself.
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The name of 'reform' simply covers what is latently a process of the theft of the national heritage.
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Evil people always support each other that is their chief strength.
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Economic growth is not only unncessary, but ruinous.
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Friends! Let us try to help if we are worth anything at all!
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...skepticism can never provide firm ground under a man's feet. And perhaps, after all, we need firm ground.
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Nowadays we don't think much of a man's love for an animal we laugh at people who are attached to cats. But if we stop loving animals, aren't we bound to stop loving humans too?
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Man has set for himself the goal of conquering the world but in the processes loses his soul.
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