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Only a magician can fix a head on a body, but any fool can lop it off.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Age: 89 †
Born: 1918
Born: December 11
Died: 2008
Died: January 1
Historian
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Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
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Once the fight is on-strike quickly and often.
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... the inexorable lesson of centuries: suffering must be borne there is no way out.
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No one can bar the road to truth, and to advance its cause I am prepared to accept even death.
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You should rejoice that you're in prison. Here you have time to think about your soul.
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The term national idea is an unclear one. One might think of it as a widely shared understanding among a people as to the desired way of life in their country, an idea that holds sway over the population. A unifying concept like that can be useful, but should never be created artificially or imposed top-down by the powers-that-be.
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If someone asked you, why not help him out?
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The heart senses who is friend and who is no friend.
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