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"Shukhov ate his supper without bread--a double portion and bread on top of it would be too rich. So he'd save the bread. You get no thanks from your belly--it always forgets what you've just done for it and comes begging again the next day."
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"The condition you're in at this moment is the product of your previous thoughts, to change your condition, change your thoughts."
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"Instead of clinging to the only Lifeboat that can save, we have tossed overboard biblical truths in the name of [compromise], living on the edge of life, like the man who rides the parameter of a hurricane, daring it to sweep him away."
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"There is always a path to our target, the problem is to discover it!"
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"Collect memories, they are your precious property."
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"From a cleansed conscience emerges a changed life."
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"Simple things have greater power than the complicated things!"
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"I am born to win."
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"Abundance in life comes from generosity."
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"To live in bliss, love everything, including people, unconditionally."
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"With a foggy mind you see nothing but fog!"
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"The clock of communism has stopped striking. But its concrete building has not yet come crashing down. For that reason, instead of freeing ourselves, we must try to save ourselves from being crushed by its rubble."
Being
"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."
Government
"Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag."
Travel
"The meaning of earthly existence lies not, as we have grown used to thinking, in prospering but in the development of the soul."
Spiritual
"Just as King Midas turned everything to gold, Stalin turned everything to mediocrity."
Politics
"It's only on a black day that you begin to have friends."
Relationship
"This is Communism's view of war. War is necessary. War is an instrument for achieving a goal.But unfortunately for Communism, this policy ran up against the American atomic bomb in 1945. Then the Communists changed their tactics and suddenly became advocates of peace at any cost."
History
"No zek had the right to stay one second in his workroom without the supervision of a free employee because prudence dictated that the prisoner would be bound to use that unsupervised second to break into the steel safe with a lead pencil, photograph its secret documents with a trouser button, explode an atom bomb, and fly to the moon."
Psychology
"In the realm of the unknown, difficulties must be viewed as a hidden treasure! Usually, the more difficult, the better. It's not as valuable if your difficulties stem from your own inner struggle. But when difficulties arise out of increasing objective resistance, that's marvelous!"
Motivation
"The Communist leaders respect only firmness and have contempt for persons who continually give in to them."
Leadership
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