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Violence does not and cannot flourish by itself it is inevitably intertwined with lying.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Age: 89 †
Born: 1918
Born: December 11
Died: 2008
Died: January 1
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He who knows how to be content will be content with little.
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Lord, give me the strength to accomplish what You've given me to do and the faith to trust You that what I haven't been able to accomplish You've already assigned to someone else.
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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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Happiness doesn't depend on the actual number of blessings we manage to scratch from life, only our attitude towards them.
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