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By offering the educated a semblance of freedom he made the denial of real freedom even more painful and humiliating. The intelligentsia sought to avenge their betrayed hopes; the Tsar strove to tame their restive spirit; and, so, semi-liberal reforms gave way to repression and repression bred rebellion.


Isaac Deutscher

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ISAAC ASIMOV It is a wretched taste to be gratified with mediocrity when the excellent lies before us.
ISAAC DISRAELI Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.
ISAAC ASIMOV Diplomacy is to do and say the nastiest things in the nicest way.
ISAAC GOLDBERG No iron can pierce the heart with such force as a period put just at the right place.
ISAAC BABEL The first law of dietetics seems to be if it tastes good, its bad for you.
ISAAC ASIMOV It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No...
ISAAC ASIMOV When asked what he would do if he only had six months to live: Type faster.
ISAAC ASIMOV If the doctor told me I had six minutes to live, I'd type a little faster.
ISAAC ASIMOV Although the time of death is approaching me, I am not afraid of dying and going to Hell or (what wo...
ISAAC ASIMOV If I were not an atheist, I would believe in a God who would choose to save people on the basis of t...
ISAAC ASIMOV We can make inspired guesses, but we don
ISAAC ASIMOV There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an art of writing.
ISAAC DISRAELI The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation.
ISAAC DISRAELI Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smooth...
ISAAC ASIMOV I do not fear computers. I fear lack of them.
ISAAC ASIMOV It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.
ISAAC ASIMOV