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1918, December 1918, December 11th 1918, Russia, Europe, …the Soviet Union,
the world,
the Northern Hemisphere, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic,
Rostov, Stavropol’skiy Kray,
Rostovskaya Oblast’,
Kislovodsk,
North Eurasia, the MSST region, Africa-Eurasia,
the G8, US postal Group 4, the UK European postal area, Russia and Kazakhstan,
Eurasia
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2008, August 3rd 2008, Russia, Europe, Moscow, …the world,
eastern Europe,
the Northern Hemisphere, Moscow Oblast,
North Eurasia, Africa-Eurasia,
the G8, US postal Group 4, the UK European postal area, Russia and Kazakhstan,
Eurasia, the MSST region,
heart failure
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"When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness."; "Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence. Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his principle."; "The salvation of mankind lies only in making everything the concern of all."; "Talent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing."; "Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words."; …"It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations."; "In our country the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State."; "For us in Russia communism is a dead dog. For many people in the West, it is still a living lion."; "Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth."; "Blow the dust off the clock. Your watches are behind the times. Throw open the heavy curtains which are so dear to you - you do not even suspect that the day has already dawned outside."; "A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him."; "We have arrived at an intellectual chaos."; "Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence."; "Today when we say the West we are already referring to the West and to Russia. We could use the word "modernity" if we exclude Africa, and the Islamic world, and partially China."; "There are a lot of clear thinkers everywhere."; "The next war... may well bury Western civilization forever."; "The name of "reform" simply covers what is latently a process of the theft of the national heritage."; "Religion always remains higher than everyday life. In order to make the elevation towards religion easier for people, religion must be able to alter its forms in relation to the consciousness of modern man."; "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."; "Of course God is endlessly multi-dimensional so every religion that exists on earth represents some face, some side of God."; "Man has set for himself the goal of conquering the world but in the processes loses his soul."; "It would have been difficult to design a path out of communism worse than the one that has been followed."; "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."; "If one is forever cautious, can one remain a human being?"; "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."; "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."; "Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the 20th century, and more than anywhere else this disease is reflected in the press."; "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."; "First would be the literary side, then the spiritual and philosophical. The political side is required principally because of the necessity of the current Russian position."; "Anyone who has proclaimed violence his method inexorably must choose lying as his principle."; "Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his principle."; "A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny."
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