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The government is not God. It does not have the right to take away that which it can’t return even if it wants to.

Anton Chekhov

Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.
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Knowledge Practice Value
The secret of boring people lies in telling them everything.
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Boredom Lying People Secret
Life is given only once, and one wants to live it boldly, with full conscious and beauty.
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Adventure Beautiful Body Conscious Life Live Oneself
Do you see that tree? It is dead but it still sways in the wind with the others. I think it would be like that with me. That if I died I would still be part of life in one way or another.
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Death Life Myself See Thinking Tree Wind
If in the first act you introduce a gun, by the third act you have to use it.
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Act Gun Introduction Weapon Yourself
I can only regard with bewilderment an educated man who is also religious.
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Education Man Myself Regard Religious
Money, like vodka, turns a person into an eccentric.
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Money Person
People don’t notice whether it’s winter or summer when they’re happy.
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Happiness Notice People Summer Winter
In nature a repulsive caterpillar turns into a lovely butterfly. But with human beings it is the other way round: a lovely butterfly turns into a repulsive caterpillar.
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Animal Growth Human Love Nature
This life of ours, human life is like a flower gloriously blooming in a meadow: along comes a goat, eats it up–no more flower.
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Flower Glorious Human Life Meadow Ourselves
When a person is born, he can embark on only one of three roads of life: if you go right, the wolves will eat you; if you go left, you’ll eat the wolves; if you go straight, you’ll eat yourself.
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Born Eat Life Person Right Road Yourself
Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.
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Law Literature Medicine Myself Night Wife
In all the universe nothing remains permanent and unchanged but the spirit.
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Change Permanent Spirit Universe
Wisdom comes not from age, but from education and learning.
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Age Education Learning Time Wisdom
The world perishes not from bandits and fires, but from hatred, hostility, and all these petty squabbles.
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Destruction Hate Small Vice World
The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.
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Answer Artist Question Role

The government is not God. It does not have the right to take away that which it can’t return even if it wants to.

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