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You only have power over people so long as you don’t take everything away from them. But when you’ve robbed a man of everything, he’s no longer in your power – he’s free again.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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Choose Happy Long Man Nothing So Stop
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The clock of communism has stopped striking. But its concrete building has not yet come crashing down. For that reason, instead of freeing ourselves, we must try to save ourselves from being crushed by its rubble.
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Talent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing.
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Being Caution Forever Human Remain
Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his principle.
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