Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.
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For a country to have a great writer is like having another government. That's why no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones.Alexander Solzhenitsyn
The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between political parties either -- but right through every human heart.
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Only those who decide to scramble up the career ladder are interesting as human beings. Nothing is more boring than a man with a career.
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Their teacher had advised them not to read Tolstoy novels, because they were very long and would easily confuse the clear ideas which they had learned from reading critical studies of him.
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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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The revolution is an amalgam of former Party functionaries, quasi- democrats, KGB officers, and black-market wheeler-dealers, who are standing in power now and have represented a dirty hybrid unseen in world history
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