Quote by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
For a country to have a great writer is like having a second gover

For a country to have a great writer is like having a second government. That is why no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones. – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Other quotes by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes… we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions – especially selfish ones. – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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Failure
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Literature transmits incontrovertible condensed experience… from generation to generation. In this way literature becomes the living memory of a nation. – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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Experience
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There is nothing inherently fair about equalizing incomes. If the government penalizes you for working harder than somebody else, that is unfair. If you save your money but retire with the same pension as a free-spending neighbor, that is also unfair. – Arthur C. Brooks

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Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated. – Gilbert K. Chesterton

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Women ought to have representatives, instead of being arbitrarily governed without any direct share allowed them in the deliberations of government. – Mary Wollstonecraft

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So it was sort of an odd time because I had been hired, but my paperwork hadnt gone through. So I worked as an intern during the government shutdown, as an intern, but I already had a job. – Monica Lewinsky

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