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Quotes by Russian Authors
"A new era in the physiological investigation of linguistic sounds was opened up by X-ray photography."
"Modern Western thought will pass into history and be incorporated in it, will have its influence and its place, just as our body will pass into the composition of grass, of sheep, of cutlets, and of men."
"It seems that the most important thing about Reagan was his anti-Communism and his reputation as a hawk who saw the Soviet Union as an 'evil empire.'"
"I shot with it a lot. I still do now. That is why I am hard of hearing."
"It's easier to write about Socrates than about a young woman or a cook."
"Let a man find himself, in distinction from others, on top of two wheels with a chain - at least in a poor country like Russia - and his vanity begins to swell out like his tires. In America it takes an automobile to produce this effect."
"Men make love more intensely at 20, but make love better, however, at 30."
"To be sure, the vast majority of people who are untrained can accept the results of science only on authority."
"The artist must train not only his eye but also his soul."
"Many a calm river begins as a turbulent waterfall, yet none hurtles and foams all the way to the sea."
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"From the described experiment it is clear that the mere act of eating, the food even not reaching the stomach, determines the stimulation of the gastric glands."
"Literature becomes the living memory of a nation."
"There are numerous bugbears in the profession of a politician. First, ordinary life suffers. Second, there are many temptations to ruin you and those around you. And I suppose third, and this is rarely discussed, people at the top generally have no friends."
"Money is the kind of instrument which is very speedily produced."
"Philosophers are adults who persist in asking childish questions."
"The world will not accept dictatorship or domination."
"The privilege of ruling would be in the hands of the skilled and the learned, with a wide scope left for profitable crooked deals carried on by the Jews, who would be attracted by the enormous extension of the international speculations of the national banks."
"That's metaphysics, my dear fellow. It's forbidden me by my doctor, my stomach won't take it."
"The reader has to be creative when he's reading. He has to try to make the thing alive. A good reader has to do a certain amount of work when he is reading."
"There is a tragic clash between Truth and the world. Pure undistorted truth burns up the world."
"But life is a great school. It thrashes and bangs and teaches you."
"Because up to sixteen years old you feel gymnastics more. You can show your emotion, grace, like woman gymnastics, not kid's gymnastics. I feel I have good shape, and I can do it elements everything, but, it's not competition for me."
"Nowadays it would be reasonable to have an annual world championship."
"I worked very hard and I earned all the attention I'm getting."
"War means blind obedience, unthinking stupidity, brutish callousness, wanton destruction, and irresponsible murder."
"The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization."
"Just as appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning."
"He who cannot eat horsemeat need not do so. Let him eat pork. But he who cannot eat pork, let him eat horsemeat. It's simply a question of taste."
"It is better to discuss things, to argue and engage in polemics than make perfidious plans of mutual destruction."
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