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"Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the twentieth century, and more than anywhere else this disease is reflected in the press."
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"It's far more important to know what person the disease has than what disease the person has."
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"The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease."
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"Everything that used to be a sin is now a disease."
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"Anti-Semitism has no historical, political and certainly no philosophical origins. Anti-Semitism is a disease."
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"I feel coming on a strange disease - humility."
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"When the patient loves his disease, how unwilling he is to allow a remedy to be applied."
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"The fact that I was fortunate enough to escape contagion, in spite of frequent, sometimes daily contacts with the disease, was because I soon guessed how it spread."
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"Often, city fathers blamed prostitutes for the disease, and some threatened to brand their cheeks with hot iron if they did not desist from their vices."
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"When a lot of remedies are suggested for a disease, that means it can't be cured."
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"The dancing sickness took place during the latter part of the fifteenth century. Bubonic plague--the black death--decimated Europe near the end of the fourteenth. Whooping cough near the end of the seventeenth, and the first known outbreaks of influenza near the end of the nineteenth. We've become so used to the idea of the flu--it seems almost like the common cold to us, doesn't it?--that no one but the historians seem to know that a hundred years ago it didn't exist."
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"Religion always remains higher than everyday life. In order to make the elevation towards religion easier for people, religion must be able to alter its forms in relation to the consciousness of modern man."
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"First would be the literary side, then the spiritual and philosophical. The political side is required principally because of the necessity of the current Russian position."
Politics
"A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny."
War
"I can say without affectation that I belong to the Russian convict world no less than I do to Russian literature. I got my education there, and it will last forever."
Education
"The name of "reform" simply covers what is latently a process of the theft of the national heritage."
Society
"For us in Russia communism is a dead dog. For many people in the West, it is still a living lion."
People
"Blow the dust off the clock. Your watches are behind the times. Throw open the heavy curtains which are so dear to you - you do not even suspect that the day has already dawned outside."
Society
"Literature becomes the living memory of a nation."
Literature
"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
"For us in Russia, communism is a dead dog, while, for many people in the West, it is still a living lion."
People
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