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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

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Woe to that nation whose literature is cut short by the intrusion of force. This is not merely interference with freedom of the press but the sealing up of a nations heart, the excision of its memory. – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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Freedom
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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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Our government declared that it is conducting some kind of great reforms. In reality, no real reforms were begun and no one at any point has declared a coherent programme. – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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Government
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Controversial proposals, once accepted, soon become hallowed. – Dean Acheson

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Government

The people are the only legitimate fountain of power, and it is from them that the constitutional charter, under which the several branches of government hold their power, is derived. – James Madison

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Government

The public is upset. If they havent lost their job, they know somebody that has. If they havent lost their house, they know somebody that has. What do you do? When somethings wrong, its governments job to fix it, it must be government thats responsible for causing it. – Michael Bloomberg

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Government

It is not an arrogant government that chooses priorities, its an irresponsible government that fails to choose. – Tony Blair

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Government

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Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public. – Epictetus

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Imagination

Learning can take place in the backyard if there is a human being there who cares about the child. Before learning computers, children should learn to read first. They should sit around the dinner table and hear what their parents have to say and think. – Dixie Carter

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Computers

My wife handles all of our technology. So if something goes wrong with the computer, I throw up my arms and step aside while the IT gal figures it out. – Ty Burrell

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Technology

He who has religion will speak poetry. But philosophy is the tool with which to seek and discover religion. – Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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Poetry