Beat a dog once and you only have to show him the whip.
("One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich")
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Man has set for himself the goal of conquering the world but in the processes loses his soul.Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Yes, you live with your feet in the mud and there's no time to be thinking about how you got in or how you're going to get out.
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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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Work was like a stick. It had two ends. When you worked for the knowing you gave them quality; when you worked for a fool you simply gave him eyewash.
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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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When you're cold, don't expect sympathy from someone who's warm.
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