Keep reading books, but remember that a book’s only a book, and you should learn to think for yourself.
MAXIM GORKYWriters build castles in the air, the reader lives inside, and the publisher inns the rent.
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Be good, be kind, be humane, and charitable; love your fellows; console the afflicted; pardon those who have done you wrong.
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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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Processing the human raw material is naturally more complicated than processing lumber.
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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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When the life is monotonous , even grief is a welcome event.
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The good qualities in our soul are most successfully and forcefully awakened by the power of art. Just as science is the intellect of the world, art is its soul.
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Intellectual 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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Everywhere, within man and without, there is devastation, instability, chaos, and evidence of some prolonged rout.
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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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Anger is like ice, and also quick to melt.
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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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A good man can be stupid and still be good. But a bad man must have brains.
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Everything which is good in me should be credited to books.
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God is a complex of ideas formed by the tribe, the nation, and humanity, which awake and organize social feelings and aim to link the individual to society and to bridle the zoological individualism.
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