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Quotes by Russian Authors
"At the moment of childbirth, every woman has the same aura of isolation, as though she were abandoned, alone."
"The experience of ages has shown that a man who works on the land is purer, nobler, higher, and more moral... Agriculture should be at the basis of everything. That's my idea."
"You can't imagine how stupid the whole world has grown nowadays."
"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."
"Fathers, provoke not your children to wrath."
"The ideal friendship is to feel as one while remaining two."
"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."
"Everybody laughs the same in every language because laughter is a universal connection."
"The physiologist who succeeds in penetrating deeper and deeper into the digestive canal becomes convinced that it consists of a number of chemical laboratories equipped with various mechanical devices."
"We don't need this religious cosmopolitanism. It's no good."
"He is not apprehended by reason, but by life."
"Not believing in force is the same as not believing in gravity."
"The USA experiences the crisis of ideological and moral values."
"Education is a weapon whose effects depend on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed."
"Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary."
"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."
"If you live among dogs, keep a stick. After all, this is what a hound has teeth for-to bite when he feels like it!"
"Just as appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning."
"From each according to his faculties; to each according to his needs."
"But I recognize no infallible authority, even in special questions; consequently, whatever respect I may have for the honesty and the sincerity of such or such an individual, I have no absolute faith in any person."
"Nowadays there is more dynamism in chess, modern players like to take the initiative. Usually they are poor defenders though."
"A great wind is blowing, and that gives you either imagination or a headache."
"The privileged man, whether he be privileged politically or economically, is a man depraved in intellect and heart."
"Power without a nation's confidence is nothing."
"In the maxim of the past you cannot go anywhere."
"Acoustic phonetics, which is developing and increasing in richness very rapidly, already enables us to solve many of the mysteries of sound, mysteries which motor phonetics could not even begin to solve."
"Money may kindle, but it cannot by itself, and for very long, burn."
"Many who have had an opportunity of knowing any more about mathematics confuse it with arithmetic, and consider it an arid science. In reality, however, it is a science which requires a great amount of imagination."
"I am convinced that the modular structure of the Mir will be the main trend in manned orbital stations development in the next century."
"Americans try to talk about positive family values, although the actual state of things is disastrous."
"I didn't sign any contracts, and I didn't see any oil."
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