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"There are several reasons why Russians view the oppressive state positively. First, in the Russian Orthodox religion, there is an understanding of authority as something sent by God."
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"God's most lordly gift to man is decency of mind."
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"Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man."
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"I do not know myself, and God forbid that I should."
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"Only God Himself fully appreciates the influence of a Christian mother in the molding of character in her children."
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"Mystery has its own mysteries, and there are gods above gods. We have ours, they have theirs. That is what's known as infinity."
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"I wouldn't have dared ask God for all that He's given me. I couldn't have done it on my own. I thank God every day for what I have."
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"There's too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will."
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"To think is of itself to be useful; it is always and in all cases a striving toward God."
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"We steal if we touch tomorrow. It is God's."
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"Grandchildren are God's way of compensating us for growing old."
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"In modern Russia, you have no official, formal assessment of this past. Nobody in any Russian document has said that the policy of the Soviet government was criminal, that it was terrible. No one has ever said this."
Government
"I'll tell you what colonial experience is."
Experience
"There are several reasons why Russians view the oppressive state positively. First, in the Russian Orthodox religion, there is an understanding of authority as something sent by God."
God
"Amin knew that neither West nor East would criticize him for fear that he would support the other side. He felt he was untouchable and he said so openly."
Fear
"Do not be misled by the fact that you are at liberty and relatively free; that for the moment you are not under lock and key: you have simply been granted a reprieve."
Fact
"There is a fundamental difference between the Polish experience of the state and the Russian experience. In the Polish experience, the state was always a foreign power. So, to hate the state was a patriotic act."
Experience
"In the First World War, there was the sudden passion of nationalism, and the killing took place because of these emotions. But the Soviet case is different, because you had systematic murder, like the Holocaust."
War
"My writing is a combination of three elements. The first is travel: not travel like a tourist, but travel as exploration. The second is reading literature on the subject. The third is reflection."
Travel
"When man meets an obstacle he can't destroy, he destroys himself."
Man
"In order to feel contempt, you generally need to cherish some kind of feelings."
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