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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.

Maxim Gorky

Just think, reader, what will happen to you if the truth of a mad beast overpowers the sane truth of man?
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Man Reading Sanity Thinking Truth
Many contemporary authors drink more than they write.
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Contemporary Drink Writing
One word of praise from a woman is dearer to me than a whole ode from a man.
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Man Praise Whole Woman Word
Two forces are succesfully influencing the education of a cultivated man: art and science. Both are united in the book.
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Art Cultivation Force Influence Man Science Success
Anger is like ice, and also quick to melt.
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Angry One Liner Quick
Processing the human raw material is naturally more complicated than processing lumber.
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Human Material Natural Process
Talent I say is what an actor needs. And talent is faith in oneself, one’s own powers.
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Actor Faith Need Oneself Power Talent
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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Charity Goodness Humanity Kindness Sorry Wrong
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
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
Remembrance of the past kills all present energy and deadens all hope for the future.
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Energy Future Hope Kill Past Present Remember
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
Our most merciless enemy is our past.
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Enemy Mercy Ourselves Past
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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Artist Convince Form Impression Man Subjective
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
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

Better Born Live Man Thankful Yourself

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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