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"One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often."

"The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions."

"The surest method of being incomprehensible or, moreover, to be misunderstood is to use words in their original sense; especially words from the ancient languages."

"Nothing hinders a thing from being natural so much as the straining ourselves to make it seem so."

"It feels kinda weird being back in a high school cause I haven't been in a high school for about a year. So um, it's kinda interesting coming back, and y'know seeing the lockers, with all the signs, the handmade signs, so being in high school again is a little bit strange but in a good way."
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"We have been learning since we were children how to make money, buy things, build things. The whole education system is set up to teach us how to think, not to feel."

"I like American women. They do things sexually Russian girls never dream of doing - like showering."

"I believe that love and laughter can only happen when one person takes the time to think about what would cause the other person to feel good."

"It's kind of bittersweet. The human spirit is not measured by the size of the act, but by the size of the heart."

"In Russia we only had two TV channels. Channel One was propaganda. Channel Two consisted of a KGB officer telling you: Turn back at once to Channel One."

"In today's society we sometimes forget to balance our hearts and our heads; this is the reason we stop laughing."
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