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Quote by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
I have spent all my life under a Communist regime, and I will tell

I have spent all my life under a Communist regime, and I will tell you that a society without any objective legal scale is a terrible one indeed. But a society with no other scale but the legal one is not quite worthy of man either. – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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You only have power over people so long as you dont take everything away from them. But when youve robbed a man of everything, hes no longer in your power – hes free again. – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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power
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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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I can say without affectation that I belong to the Russian convict world no less than I do to Russian literature. I got my education there, and it will last forever. – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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Education
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Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag. – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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Travel
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Other Quotes from
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All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind. – Joseph Conrad

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legal

The Supreme Court ruled that disabled golfer Casey Martin has a legal right to ride in a golf cart between shots at PGA Tour events. Man, the next thing you know, theyre going to have some guy carry his clubs around for him. – Jon Stewart

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legal

She never envisioned a legal career for me, but she did think it was very important that I be able to support myself, and I think she would be pleased to see what has become of me. – Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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legal

In regards to The Haunting, people compared it to the old movie, which is unfair. We didnt have the rights to the movie. I couldnt duplicate a single thing because that would have been legal infringement. – Jan de Bont

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legal

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Personal technology has given us the freedom of being able to do whatever we want – and in the case of celebrities and athletes, whomever they want. But it can also serve as a humiliation jetpack. – Sloane Crosley

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Most human organizations that fall short of their goals do so not because of stupidity or faulty doctrines, but because of internal decay and rigidification. They grow stiff in the joints. They get in a rut. They go to seed. – James Garfield

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When Im shooting a movie, Im always in an invisible theater seat. I respect the fact that people have worked hard all week and want to go to the movies on the weekend and be entertained. – Michael Moore

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Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response. – Arthur M. Schlesinger

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