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Only an extraordinary person can turn opportunity into reality.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Age: 89 †
Born: 1918
Born: December 11
Died: 2008
Died: January 1
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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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If one is forever cautious, can one remain a human being?
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To stand up for truth is nothing. For truth, you must sit in jail.
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It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations.
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