If I were called upon to identify briefly the principal trait of the entire 20th century. . . … - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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I am thankful to the Nobel committee for recognising the plight of millions of children who are suffering in this modern age

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

If I were called upon to identify briefly the principal trait of the entire 20th century. . . I would be unable to find anything more precise and pithy than to repeat once again: Men have forgotten God.

20Th, Christian, Men, Precise, Religious, Repeat

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Satiety depends not at all on how much we eat, but on how we eat. It's the same with happiness, the very same. . . happiness doesn't depend on how many external blessings we have snatched from life. It depends only on our attitude toward them. There's a saying about it in the Taoist ethic: 'Whoever is capable of contentment will always be satisfied.

Attitude, Blessing, Contentment, Depend, Ethic, External

The price of cowardice will only be evil. We shall reap courage and victory only when we dare to make sacrifices.

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The less you speak, the more you will hear.

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A work of art contains its verification in itself: artificial, strained concepts do not withstand the test of being turned into images; they fall to pieces, turn out to be sickly and pale, convince no one. Works which draw on truth and present it to us in live and concentrated form grip us, compellingly involve us, and no one ever, not even ages hence, will come forth to refute them.

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Man has set for himself the goal of conquering the world but in the processes loses his soul.

Goal, Man, Men, Set, Soul, World

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