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Call no day happy 'til it is done call no man happy til he is dead.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Age: 89 †
Born: 1918
Born: December 11
Died: 2008
Died: January 1
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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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Our government declared that it is conducting some kind of great reforms. In reality, no real reforms were begun and no one at any point has declared a coherent programme.
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Ideology - that is what gives evildoing its long-sought justification and gives the evildoer the neccessary steadfastness and determination... Thanks to ideology, the twentieth century was fated to experience evildoing on a scale calculated in the millions.
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Scientific research? Only when not at the cost of ethics-and first of all, those of the researchers themselves.
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If someone asked you, why not help him out?
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If we look far into the future, one can see a time in the 21st century when both Europe and the USA will be in dire need of Russia as an ally.
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To destroy a people, you must first sever their roots.
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Macbeth's self-justifications were feeble - and his conscience devoured him. Yes, even Iago was a little lamb too. The imagination and the spiritual strength of Shakespeare's evildoers stopped short at a dozen corpses. Because they had no ideology.
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Our envy of others devours us most of all.
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If we live in a state of constant fear, can we remain human?
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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.
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Who has the skill to make a narrow, obstinate human being aware of others' far-off grief and joy, to make him understand dimensions and delusions he himself has never lived through? Propaganda, coercion, and scientific proofs are powerless. But happily, in our world there is a way. It is art, and it is literature.
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It's not the sea that drowns you-it's the puddle.
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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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Socialism of any type leads to a total destruction of the human spirit...
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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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The one who pulls is the one they urge on.
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We have to condemn publicly the very idea that some people have the right to repress others... When we neither punish nor reproach evildoers ... we are ripping the foundations of justice from beneath new generations.
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