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I'm a poor businessman. I find it uncomfortable to ask for money, to tell the truth.


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ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN Justice is conscience, not a personal conscience but the conscience of the whole of humanity. Those ...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN By apeculiar coincidence, the very day when I was giving my address in Washington, ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN In our village, folks say God crumbles up the old moon into stars.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN You can build the Empire State Building. Train the Prussian army. Elevate the hierarchy of a totalit...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN I think, ladies and gentlemen, and I particularly address those of you who have a socialist outlook,...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN That’s all very well, but how many family doctors would you need? It simply doesn’t fit into the...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN You only have power over people as long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN He understood it then. The potential, the utter, unbelievable freedom to be whoever existed undernea...
ALEKSANDR VOINOV Now for the first time you were about to see people who were not your enemies. Now for the first tim...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN Here march the eaters of earth,
the swallowers of rain.
J. ALEKSANDR WOOTTON Live in the moment... but don't be led by the moment, or the people who belong to it.
J. ALEKSANDR WOOTTON The great risk of living is that we might not survive it.
J. ALEKSANDR WOOTTON The more stories I study, the more I begin to suspect that there is only one story, and that ...
J. ALEKSANDR WOOTTON