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First Quotes by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
- In the camp, this meant committing my verse-many thousands of lines-to memory. To help me with this I improvised decimal counting beads and, in transit…
- There also exists another alliance - at first glance a strange one, a surprising one - but if you think about it, in fact, one…
- A day without a dark cloud. Almost a happy day. There were three thousand six hundred and fifty-three days like that in his stretch. From…
- It is a brave man who is the first to sit down during a standing ovation.
- To destroy a people, you must first sever their roots.
- It was only when I lay there on the rotting prison straw that I sensed within myself the first stirrings of good. Gradually it was…
- Only the first swath cut by the scythe is difficult.
- To do evil a human being must first of all believe that what he's doing is good, or else that it's a well-considered act in…
- Scientific research? Only when not at the cost of ethics-and first of all, those of the researchers themselves.
- First would be the literary side, then the spiritual and philosophical. The political side is required principally because of the necessity of the current Russian…
- It's an universal law-- intolerance is the first sign of an inadequate education. An ill-educated person behaves with arrogant impatience, whereas truly profound education breeds…
- To do evil a human being must first of all believe that what he's doing is good... Ideology - that is what gives devildoing its…
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- Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others. — Aristotle
- For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. — Aristotle
- He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled. — Aristotle
- In making a speech one must study three points: first, the means of producing persuasion; second, the language; third the proper arrangement… — Aristotle
- Retired is being tired twice, I've thought, first tired of working, then tired of not. — Richard Armour
- The first time that you escape from home or the small town that you live in - there's a reason a small… — Billie Joe Armstrong
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- Ironically, the first thing that appealed to me about Islam was its pluralism. The fact that the Koran praises all the great… — Karen Armstrong