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Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man. Fyodor Dostoevsky
God Man Heart Devil Beauty Fighting Battlefield Mysterious Well Terrible
What I've never understood is why some women use plastic surgery to make themselves more attractive to men. The most beautiful woman is someone who's happy and is always smiling. Irina Shayk
Beautiful Woman Happy Women Most Beautiful Men Beautiful Woman Some Someone More Never Most Attractive Make Smiling Always Understood Surgery Themselves Use Plastic Plastic Surgery Why
One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken. Leo Tolstoy
Happiness Nature Broken Man First Shall Between Conditions Link
We need business to understand its social responsibility, that the main task and objective for a business is not to generate extra income and to become rich and transfer the money abroad, but to look and evaluate what a businessman has done for the country, for the people, on whose account he or she has become so rich. Vladimir Putin
Business People Money Responsibility Country Become Rich Extra Objective Abroad Main Generate He He Or She Look For The People She Understand Account Task Done Transfer Social Evaluate Businessman Social Responsibility Income Whose Need
Whoever does not miss the Soviet Union has no heart. Whoever wants it back has no brain. Vladimir Putin
Heart Back Miss Does Brain Soviet Soviet Union Wants Union Whoever
The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month. Fyodor Dostoevsky
Man Fool Once Month Cleverest Himself Calls Opinion Least In My Opinion Who
Joy can only be real if people look upon their life as a service and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness. Leo Tolstoy
Happiness Life Service People Joy Definite Be Real Object Only Outside Look Real Personal Themselves
Life is not an easy matter... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness. Leon Trotsky
Life Great You Frustration Matter Before Live Unless Weakness Great Idea Easy Kinds Above Through Misery Idea Without Falling Personal Cannot Which Cynicism Raises
We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken. Fyodor Dostoevsky
People Sometimes Word First Before Strangers Once Sight Has-Been Somehow Perfect Spoken Been Encounter Begin Interest Us Who Even Suddenly
There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil. Ayn Rand
Evil Every Other Side Sides Wrong Always Issue Middle Right Two
I swear, by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine. Ayn Rand
Life Love Man Will My Life Live Mine Never Another Another Man Sake Nor Swear Ask
Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something. Anton Chekhov
Love Friendship Respect People Hatred Something Common Much Unite
No real social change has ever been brought about without a revolution... revolution is but thought carried into action. Emma Goldman
Politics Change Thought Revolution Action Carried Brought About Without Real Been Social Social Change Ever
We sit in the mud... and reach for the stars. Ivan Turgenev
Sit Stars Reach Reach For The Stars Mud
A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite. Leo Tolstoy
Life Food Man Animal Animals Healthy Live Eats Animal Life He Taking Merely Without Sake His Meat Therefore Appetite
Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps, down new roads, armed with nothing but their own vision. Ayn Rand
Vision Men First Own Nothing Down Took Throughout Roads Steps New Armed Were Centuries Who
Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold. Leo Tolstoy
Truth Like Obtained Gold Washing Away Growth
When one makes a Revolution, one cannot mark time; one must always go forward - or go back. He who now talks about the 'freedom of the press' goes backward, and halts our headlong course towards Socialism. Vladimir Lenin
Time Freedom Socialism Revolution Mark Back Our Press Backward Must About He Towards Headlong Course Talks Makes Always Go Goes Cannot Who Forward Now
You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he's no longer in your power - he's free again. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
You Man People Free Long Power Everything Only Take He Longer Over Robbed Again Them Your Away
So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of all money? Ayn Rand
You Money Evil Think Asked Root Ever
Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it. Fyodor Dostoevsky
Happiness Achievement Lie Does
The masses go into a revolution not with a prepared plan of social reconstruction, but with a sharp feeling that they cannot endure the old regime. Only the guiding layers of a class have a political program, and even this still requires the test of events and the approval of the masses. Leon Trotsky
Class Events Political Old Feeling Revolution Approval Guiding Reconstruction Only Layers Sharp Masses Still Test Go Endure Cannot Regime Social Plan Requires Even Prepared Program
It is true that liberty is precious; so precious that it must be carefully rationed. Vladimir Lenin
Liberty Carefully Must True Precious
Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the 20th century, and more than anywhere else this disease is reflected in the press. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Psychic Else Press Superficiality More Reflected Than Disease Diseases Anywhere Anywhere Else Century
A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
War Tyranny State Only Excuse Domestic Serve
Government 'help' to business is just as disastrous as government persecution... the only way a government can be of service to national prosperity is by keeping its hands off. Ayn Rand
Service Government Business Prosperity National Way Only Disastrous Off Persecution Hands Just Help Keeping
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