Intellectual force is qualitatively the first and foremost productive force, and concern for its rapid growth should be the ardent concern of all classes.
MAXIM GORKYGod 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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Processing the human raw material is naturally more complicated than processing lumber.
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You can’t do without philosophy, since everything has its hidden meaning which we must know.
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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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When a woman gets married it is like jumping into a hole in the ice in the middle of winter: you do it once and you remember it the rest of your days.
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You must write for children the same way you write for adults, only better.
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Every new time will give its law.
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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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When everything is easy one quickly gets stupid.
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Only mothers can think of the future – because they give birth to it in their children.
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Two forces are succesfully influencing the education of a cultivated man: art and science. Both are united in the book.
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Everywhere, within man and without, there is devastation, instability, chaos, and evidence of some prolonged rout.
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To an old man any place that’s warm is homeland.
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Truth doesn’t always heal a wounded soul.
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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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Keep reading books, but remember that a book’s only a book, and you should learn to think for yourself.
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Let us not search for the guilty ones only among others, let us speak the bitter truth: we are all guilty each and every one of us.
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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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In the carriages of the past, you can’t go anywhere.
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Hunger can explain many acts. It can be said that all vile acts are done to satisfy hunger.
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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.
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An honest man is all right even if he’s an idiot…but a crook must have brains.
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We ever long for visions of beauty, We ever dream of unknown worlds.
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Our most merciless enemy is our past.
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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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The more a human creature has tasted of bitter things the more it hungers after the sweet things of life.
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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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