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What I’d like is to meet a man I could take off my hat to and say: “Thank you for having got born, and the longer you live the better.

Maxim Gorky

Many contemporary authors drink more than they write.
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Contemporary Drink Writing
Every new time will give its law.
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Law One Liner Time
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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Class Force Growth Intellectual
In the maxim of the past you cannot go anywhere.
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Past Yourself
Jail doesn’t teach anyone to do good, nor Siberia, but a man-yes! A man can teach another man to do good-believe me!
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Believe Goodness Man Myself Teaching
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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Art Goodness Quality Soul Success
Even a bad man is better than a good book.
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Bad Better Book Goodness Man
We kill everybody, my dear. Some with bullets, some with words, and everybody with our deeds. We drive people into their graves, and neither see it nor feel it.
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Action Feeling Grave Kill Myself Word
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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Complex Feeling Form God Individual Link Organization Social
Processing the human raw material is naturally more complicated than processing lumber.
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Human Material Natural Process
An honest man is all right even if he’s an idiot…but a crook must have brains.
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Brain Honesty Idiot Man Right
One has to be able to count if only so that at fifty one doesn’t marry a girl of twenty.
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Age Count Marriage
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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Avoid Carry Function Politics Public
In war it is necessary to kill as many people as possible — such is the cynical logic of war. Brutality in a fight is unavoidable; have you seen how cruelly children fight in the streets?
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Avoid Children Cruelty Fight Necessary People War
The most beautiful words in the English language are ‘not guilty’.
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Beautiful English Guilty Language Word
All human beings have gray little souls-and they all want to rouge them up.
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Human Rough Soul

What I’d like is to meet a man I could take off my hat to and say: “Thank you for having got born, and the longer you live the better.

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