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Quotes by Russian Authors
"As was to be expected, the discovery of the nervous apparatus of the salivary glands immediately impelled physiologists to seek a similar apparatus in other glands lying deeper in the digestive canal."
"Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it."
"Money may kindle, but it cannot by itself, and for very long, burn."
"Edible substances evoke the secretion of thick, concentrated saliva. Why? The answer, obviously, is that this enables the mass of food to pass smoothly through the tube leading from the mouth into the stomach."
"But I still wonder how it was possible, in those graceless years of transition, long ago, that men did not see whither they were going, and went on, in blindness and cowardice, to their fate. I wonder, for it is hard for me to conceive how men who knew the word "I," could give it up and not know what they lost. But such has been the story, for I have lived in the City of the damned, and I know what horror men permitted to be brought upon them."
"There is no one on earth more disgusting and repulsive than he who gives alms. Even as there is no one so miserable as he who accepts them."
"I've just done a commercial in the U.S. in which I talk about stocks, shares and bonds. Everyone is amazed. They ask me: 'You really know about that stuff or did you just learn it for the commercial?' I tell them I wouldn't do it unless I understood and had an interest."
"The ' pleasure' of being drunk is obviously the pleasure of escaping from the responsibility of Consciousness."
"Everybody laughs the same in every language because laughter is a universal connection."
"Where is it I've read that someone condemned to death says or thinks, an hour before his death, that if he had to live on some high rock, on such a narrow ledge that he'd only room to stand, and the ocean, everlasting darkness, everlasting solitude, everlasting tempest around him, if he had to remain standing on a square yard of space all his life, a thousand years, eternity, it were better to live so than to die at once. Only to live, to live and live! Life, whatever it may be!"
"If one is forever cautious, can one remain a human being?"
"We walked to meet each other up at the time of our love and then we have been irresistibly drifting in different directions, and there's no altering that."
"Napoleon is a torrent which as yet we are unable to stem. Moscow will be the sponge that will suck him dry."
"The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God."
"I would say this is not negative this is h, a hard part in gymnastics. You can't eat, whatever you want to eat. And what kind of meal you're supposed to have, you can't."
"If any foreign minister begins to defend to the death a "peace conference," you can be sure his government has already placed its orders for new battleships and airplanes."
"We don't need this religious cosmopolitanism. It's no good."
"Capitalists are no more capable of self-sacrifice than a man is capable of lifting himself up by his own bootstraps."
"If you cry 'forward', you must without fail make plain in what direction to go."
"Liberalism, on the other hand, regards life as an adventure in which we must take risks in new situations, in which there is no guarantee that the new will always be the good or the true, in which progress is a precarious achievement rather than inevitability."
"Americans try to talk about positive family values, although the actual state of things is disastrous."
"It can't be that life is so senseless and horrible. But if it really has been so horrible and senseless, why must I die and die in agony? There is something wrong!"
"The USA experiences the crisis of ideological and moral values."
"Fathers, provoke not your children to wrath."
"It is clear to all that the animal organism is a highly complex system consisting of an almost infinite series of parts connected both with one another and, as a total complex, with the surrounding world, with which it is in a state of equilibrium."
"A new era in the physiological investigation of linguistic sounds was opened up by X-ray photography."
"Chess is an infinitely complex game, which one can play in infinitely numerous and varied ways."
"Anyone who doesn't regret the passing of the Soviet Union has no heart. Anyone who wants it restored has no brains."
"It goes without saying that the desire to accomplish the task with more confidence, to avoid wasting time and labour, and to spare our experimental animals as much as possible, made us strictly observe all the precautions taken by surgeons in respect to their patients."
"I swear to you that to think too much is a disease, a real, actual disease."
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