A good man can be stupid and still be good. But a bad man must have brains.
MAXIM GORKYIntellectual force is qualitatively the first and foremost productive force, and concern for its rapid growth should be the ardent concern of all classes.
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It is quiet and peaceful here, the air is good, there are numerous gardens, and in them nightingales sing and spies lurk under the bushes.
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Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.
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Everybody, my friend, everybody lives for something better to come. That’s why we want to be considerate of every man – Who knows what’s in him, why he was born and what he can do?
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To an old man any place that’s warm is homeland.
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The most beautiful words in the English language are ‘not guilty’.
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Remembrance of the past kills all present energy and deadens all hope for the future.
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The higher goal a person pursues, the quicker his ability develops, and the more beneficial he will become to the society. I believe for sure that this is also a truth.
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An artist is a man who digests his own subjective impressions and knows how to find a general objective meaning in them, and how to express them in a convincing form.
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When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery.
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In the carriages of the past, you can’t go anywhere.
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Anger is like ice, and also quick to melt.
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Politics is something similar to the lower physiological functions, with the unpleasant difference that political functions are unavoidably carried out in public.
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When everything is easy one quickly gets stupid.
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Silence is terrible and painful only to those who have said all and have nothing more to speak of; but to those who never had anything to say— to them silence is simple and easy.
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One word of praise from a woman is dearer to me than a whole ode from a man.
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