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I've just been on a once-in-a-lifetime holiday. I'll tell you what, never again.
Right now, we have no possibility of politics because we have a one-party state.
In McKinsey's world, all of life is one of two things: strategy or organization.
friends are like stars. You do not see all the time, but you know they are there
The only problem is whether one adds life to one's years or years to one's life.
One must always try to see the truth of a situation - it makes things universal.
A touch of science, even bogus science, gives an edge to the superstitious tale.
Money can be more of a barrier between people than language or race or religion.
For as long as there's anyone to ask 'Why?' the answer will always be, 'Why not?
in the big city nobody has time to make friends. The big city is a big solitude.
You're supposed to be using your gifts and fulfilling your dreams, at every age.
I am made and remade continually. Different people draw different words from me.
Her life-that was the only chance she had-the short season between two silences.
For books continue each other, in spite of our habit of judging them separately.
I feel that by writing I am doing what is far more necessary than anything else.
The Khodorkovsky case is typical of the "oprichnina" - the system of oppression.
Give me a few minutes to talk away my face and I can seduce the Queen of France.
We must distinguish between speaking to deceive and being silent to be reserved.
Errors flies from mouth to mouth, from pen to pen, and to destroy it takes ages.
Love has various lodgings; the same word does not always signify the same thing.
It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books.
Every sensible man, every honorable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror.
I think it can be shown that the law makes ten criminals where it restrains one.
She is still less civilized than man, largely because she has not been educated.
As long as you are conscious of yourself, you can never concentrate on anything.
If you know you don't have a win, then there's no use for you being in the game.
Robinson Crusoe, the self-sufficient man, could not have lived in New York city.
When philosophers try to be politicians they generally cease to be philosophers.
Run against the grain of a nation's genius and see where you get with your laws.
I warmed both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.
There is no easy path leading out of life, and few easy ones that lie within it.
God doesn't bless us just to make us happy; He blesses us to make us a blessing.
In the end, nothing is lost. Every event, for good or evil, has effects forever.
There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.
The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means.
People need trouble - a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it.
She loved him not only in spite of but because he himself was incapable of love.
I am always afraid of a fool. One cannot be sure that he is not a knave as well.
I can enjoy society in a room; but out of doors, nature is company enough for me
We must overact our part in some measure, in order to produce any effect at all.
What I mean by living to one's self is living in the world, as in it, not of it.
The mind revolts against certain opinions, as the stomach rejects certain foods.
Writing or talking about famine and the world's response to it is not very easy.
A lie has no legs, and cannot stand; but it has wings, and can fly far and wide.
What is revolution except a systematic way for one species to eat another alive?
O what is life, if we must hold it thus as wind-blown sparks hold momentary fire?
The paradox is that when resistance is fully accepted, the resistance disappears.
In the end it’s all very simple. Either we give ourselves to Silence or we don’t.
The main requirement for spiritual growth: A yearning to know who you really are.
Space and stillness is the light that illuminates the beauty of our soul's being.