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“But in the course of the war they waged against the taiga, scorching it with fire, and attacking it with iron, Makar’s fathers and… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
There are two classes of women in Soviet Russia. There is the professional class, which has taken the place of the nobility and includes… — Elsa Schiaparelli Copy Share Image
“Here was the Russia she'd loved since childhood, the dark, violent, passionate place where the life of the mind and spirit were as real… — Natalie Standiford Copy Share Image
“A familiar image of a grim, frozen Russia is the babushka, the old woman, hunched and determined, head wrapped in a scarf. Her gnarled… — Lev Golinkin Copy Share Image
“To be a Russian writer at the end of the nineteenth century must have meant bearing an inescapably bitter fate. The more they tried… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
There's a view in Russian society that there are 'male professions' and 'female professions.' The women should be looking after the home and children.… — Ksenia Sobchak Copy Share Image
Moscow was, as some said, the most beautiful mistress a man could ever want, but never cross her: like any good woman, she might… — Marjorie M. Liu Copy Share Image
We bow our heads in respect for those Soviet women who displayed exceptional courage in the severe time of war. Never before but during… — Leonid Brezhnev Copy Share Image
We Russians have assigned ourselves no other task in life but the cultivation of our own personalities, and when we're barely past childhood, we… — Ivan Turgenev Copy Share Image
“Life in a police state is pretty good—if you are the state police.” Though” — Marc Cameron Copy Share Image
“There are three rules to a water landing,” he said, dropping the tail. “Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.” — Marc Cameron Copy Share Image
“the venerable 1911 design some operators felt had to have been revealed by the Almighty to John Browning. Nestled” — Marc Cameron Copy Share Image
“If you wanted the respect of the world, you climbed Everest. If you wanted the respect of other mountaineers, you climbed K2.” — Marc Cameron Copy Share Image
“I’m probably the first woman in my family to ever contemplate hiring a babysitter so she can go break a friend out of a… — Marc Cameron Copy Share Image
“Four things greater than all things are,’ ” the Sikh said, again using Kipling to make his point. “ ‘. . . Women and Horses and Power and War.” — Marc Cameron Copy Share Image
“though a concentrated mind could pierce a stone, it was a long process.” — Marc Cameron Copy Share Image
“The Brits called them SMIDSY accidents—Sorry, mate, I didn’t see you.” — Marc Cameron Copy Share Image
“Chinese proverb: When two tigers fight, one is injured beyond repair—and the other one is dead. During” — Marc Cameron Copy Share Image
“She’s the kind of girl who’d beat a guy to death with a walrus pecker if he crossed her,” — Marc Cameron Copy Share Image
