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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN If you can be anything, be good. Let people know you for your goodness
SOTONYE ANGA You should base everything on what you see with your own eyes, hear with your own ears and feel with...
TANYA MASSE Only as you do know yourself can your brain serve you as a sharp and efficient tool. Know your own f...
BERNARD BARUCH Only as you do know yourself can your brain serve you as a sharp and efficient tool. Know your own f...
BERNARD M. BARUCH What your enemies know can hurt you,
but what your friends know can destroy you.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO You cant live champagne life,if you cant buy beer.
I DONT KNOW You remember only what you want to remember. You know only what your heart allows you to know.
AMY TAN At the end of the day, just know that God made you, so you can be your own individual, and don't...
WYCLEF JEAN You don't really know your own worth because you don't know what may happen tomorrow.
RICK JAMES You can know what's in your life when you know what's in your heart.
SAM KEEN You must know what you need to do every day to carry out your mission
SUNDAY ADELAJA Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about
yourself... Guard ...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD You know how only you can insult your own family? That's how I feel about Florida.
DANIELLE SCHNEIDER Make sure that you always follow your heart and your gut, and let yourself be who you want to be, an...
JONATHAN GROFF You can always give your testimony of how you came to know Jesus. Certainly no one can argue with yo...
HENRY HON You simply cannot control other people's thoughts or actions and you can't even necessarily control ...
TOBEY MAGUIRE I believe we might be trying a bit too hard. Sometimes, when you know how good you are, and you know...
DAN BROOKS You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you ...
DR. SEUSS You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction y...
DR. SEUSS Pay what you owe, and you'll know what's your own.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Trust Only The Few Who Will Travel By Your Side, You Never Know When They Ones Behind You Will Leave...
NICHOLAS EDWARD GARDNER You should never let your fears prevent you from doing what you know is right.
AUNG SAN SUU KYI You will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON What must I say, that you don’t know on your own?
NIKHIL SHRIVASTAVA Create you own singleness, your own loneliness, and know that you know this is exactly what you are ...
MARGARET ARANDA Always have someone with you. Never let go of your drink. Always know, if someone's leaving, where t...
AMANDA MURPHY Caffeine only temporarily blocks the signals to your brain that let you know you?re tired.
JAMES LANE You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction y...
DR. SEUSS When you know who I am. Let me be your man.
KAREN MARIE MONING When you can be your own best audience and when your applause is the best applause you know of, you�...
L. RON HUBBARD You can know what's in your life when you know what's in your heart.
SAM KEEN Only as you do know yourself can your brain serve you as a sharp and efficient tool. Know your faili...
BERNARD BARUCH Only as you do know yourself can your brain serve you as a sharp and efficient tool. Know your faili...
BERNARD M. BARUCH Catch your people doing something right and let them know you appreciate it.
You make your own luck, Gig. You know what makes a good loser? Practice.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY You cannot know where your people are going if you don't know where your people have been.
FORREST CARTER When you can be your own best audience and when your applause is the best applause you know of, you�...
L. RON HUBBARD Your mind knows only some things. Your inner voice, your instinct, knows everything. If you listen t...
HENRY WINKLER Do what you love. Know your own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU Don't you know that nobody can make you be shit? You can only let it happen.
JUXIAN TANG You have to know what you own. You have to really do your homework in terms of knowing what supports...
MEREDITH WHITNEY There's no need to let your family know the details of what you throw out or donate. You can lea...
MARIE KONDO You have brains in your head.
You have feet in your shoes.
You can steer yourself
any d...
DR. SEUSS You know if you walked around the world, your hat would travel thirty-one feet farther than your sho...
DAVID WONG How can you come to know yourself? Never by thinking, always by doing. Try to do your duty, and you'...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE How can you come to know yourself? Never by thinking; always by doing. Try to do your duty, and you'...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE It's a bit cliche, but you can't go wrong by writing what you know. Even if you're a hor...
ISSA RAE Always be prepared to take any situation by stride, always be honest to commitment.They are recipe f...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Impossible; for how many people did you know who refracted your own light to you?
RAY BRADBURY You know what I like about you, Finch? You’re interesting. You’re different. And I can talk to y...
JENNIFER NIVEN If you don't know what you want, others will want you for what they know! You must know yourself!
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR Intellectual freedom begins when one says with Socrates that he knows that he knows nothing, and the...
SCOTT M. BUCHANAN Know this...."freedom" comes with GREAT responsibility. Enjoy your youth and the carelessness it aff...
DEDRICK D. L. PITTER Always check your hats be-
fore donning them. You never know what might be lurking inside.
MARISSA MEYER Do you know what it means to be loved by Death?... Do you know what it means to have Death know your...
ANNE RICE Don't be too specific about what you want to do. Indicate your interests, but let people know you're...
SHAWN BOYER You can change only what people know, not what they do.
SCOTT ADAMS Sometimes God uses people to test you. Be patient with people because you never know how God can use...
JEANETTE CORON The main reason why your company can easily influence you is because "emotion and attitude are stron...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR Once you KNOW who you are, it's only then when you can surpass your potential.
N. S. COLE You know what a camera is? A mirror with memory.
SOURCE UNKNOWN You can only be afraid of what you think you know.
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTI Never give up on your dream... because you never know what the Lord can bless you with.
KELLY ROWLAND How can we know ourselves? Never by reflection, but only through action. Begin at once to do your du...
JOHANN VON GOETHE How can we know ourselves? Never by reflection, but only through action. Begin at once to do your du...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE It doesn't interest me what you do for a living. I want to know what you ache for, and if you dare t...
ORIAH MOUNTAIN DREAMER Mind your strength! Let people know that you are strong and let them see how strong you are, and who...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Let your children know you love being around them
SOTONYE ANGA Let others scream, because ultimately you know your story
PRATEEK TRIPATHI When you take the time to really know yourself—know your values, know your beliefs, know what is i...
SURAJ DAHAL You Yourself know Your Own Ways; You dwell upon Yourself.
SRI GURU GRANTH SAHIB always know that your sister or your brother will be your best friend forever they love you,care abo...
HAGAR IBRAHIM Be happy with being you. Love your flaws. Own your quirks. And know that you are just as perfect as ...
ARIANA GRANDE Your source material is the people you know, not those you don't know, but every character is an ext...
EDWARD ALBEE If one word can be used to characterize the new career, it is self-reliance , ... That means you bel...
BARBARA MOSES If you can see your path laid out in front of you step by step, you know it's not your path. Your ow...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL Only write from your own passion, your own truth. That's the only thing you really know about, and a...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON If you happen to live close to the desert border, you can pretty much calculate how long it will be ...
MAGNUS LARSSON If you cannot read all your books, at any rate handle, or as it were, fondle them – peer into them...
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL People always used to say to me, 'Don't you want your own show? That'd be so cool if you...
CANDY CROWLEY If you cannot read all your books...fondle them---peer into them, let them fall open where they will...
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL Be careful that you do not write or paint anything that is not your own, that you don't know in your...
EMILY CARR Be careful that you do not write or paint anything that is not your own, that you don't know in ...
EMILY CARR I think everybody can identify, you know, with this sort of struggle to decide for yourself who you ...
BARRY JENKINS “WTF is wrong with facebook? Only poking me in the rib! I want you to know that it hurts also that...
NERRYMIAH SCIPIO You are only limited to what you push yourself to, you know? You can always get better.
LINDSEY VONN If you think the world is full of darkness, let us see your light. If you think the world is full of...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH When you're good at controlling your own emotions, you can disguise your true feelings. When you...
ADAM GRANT You not only have to know your own instrument, you must know the others and how to back them up at a...
OSCAR PETERSON Know you food, know your farmers, and know your kitchen.
JOEL SALATIN Always believe in yourself and always stretch yourself beyond your limits. Your life is worth a lot ...
ROY T. BENNETT You know you are a writer when you enjoy your own company.
THUTHULA NAMHLA DLEPU If you can't be you without the biased views of what you should be you will not like your authentic ...
KAT MORGAN Christ says: I know you through and through – I know everything about you. The very hairs of your ...
MOTHER TERESA You know you're old if your walker has an airbag.
PHYLLIS DILLER You can sightread better if you know your scales and arpeggios.
JAMES GALWAY What you know is dangerous to your enemies. What you think you know is dangerous to yourself.
JARVIS DUVEL GAYDEN

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ALEKSANDR LEBED There is no reason why I should call myself a democrat.
ALEKSANDR LEBED In order to build basic democracy here we'll need lives of two generations - at least forty year...
ALEKSANDR LEBED I counted on sixty days only, but I held out for 133. I didn't go into power, but to get power I...
ALEKSANDR LEBED And this system sorted out the Chechen war in just 20 days. This way, I used the President's pow...
ALEKSANDR LEBED It wasn't poverty that drove me on.
ALEKSANDR KUPRIN He understood it then. The potential, the utter, unbelievable freedom to be whoever existed undernea...
ALEKSANDR VOINOV Do not pursue what is illusory - property and position: all that is gained at the expense of your ne...
ALEXANDR SOLZHENITSYN One should never direct people towards happiness, because happiness too is an idol of the market-pla...
ALEXANDR SOLZHENITSYN For a country to have a great writer is like having another government. That's why no r?gime has eve...
ALEXANDR SOLZHENITSYN This book is an agglomeration of lean-tos and annexes and there is no knowing how big the next addit...
ALEKSANDER SOLZHENITSYN I was in a state of witless shock, as though flames had suddenly enwrapped and paralyzed me so that ...
ALEKSANDER SOLZHENITSYN If one is forever cautious, can one remain a human being?
ALEKSANDER SOLZHENITSYN Woe to that nation whose literature is cut short by the intrusion of force. This is not merely inter...
ALEKSANDER SOLZHENITSYN Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.
ALEKSANDER SOLZHENITSYN I'd rather have the United States be the world's policeman than the Soviet Union be the world's jail...
ALEKSANDER SOLZHENITSYN You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've...
ALEKSANDER SOLZHENITSYN Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the 20th century, and more than anywhere el...
ALEKSANDER SOLZHENITSYN He had drawn many a thousand of these rations in prisons and camps, and though he'd never had an opp...
ALEKSANDER SOLZHENITSYN For a country to have a great writer is like having a second government. That is why no regime has e...
ALEKSANDER SOLZHENITSYN I have spent all my life under a Communist regime, and I will tell you that a society without any ob...
ALEXANDR SOLZHENITSYN You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've...
ALEXANDR SOLZHENITSYN A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.
ALEXANDR SOLZHENITSYN We do not err because truth is difficult to see. It is visible at a glance. We err because this is m...
ALEXANDR SOLZHENITSYN Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.
ALEXANDR SOLZHENITSYN When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.
ALEXANDR SOLZHENITSYN Our envy of others devours us most of all
ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN Even the most rational approach to ethics is defenseless if there isn't the will to do what is right
ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your m...
ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the twentieth century, and more than anywhe...
ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN The Universe has as many different centers as there are living beings in it
ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN Blow the dust off the clock. Your watches are behind the times. Throw open the heavy curtains which ...
ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN I am of course confident that I will fulfill my tasks as a writer in all circumstances -- from my gr...
ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN Justice is conscience, not a personal conscience but the conscience of the whole of humanity. Those ...
ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN Literature becomes the living memory of a nation.
ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN Generosity is a two-edged virtue for an artist - it nourishes his imagination but has a fatal effect...
ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN Blow the dust off the clock. Your watches are behind the times. Throw open the heavy curtains which ...
ALEXANDR SOLZHENITSYN Own only what you can carry with you; know language, know countries, know people. Let your memory be...
ALEXANDR SOLZHENITSYN Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the twentieth century, and more than anywhe...
ALEXANDR SOLZHENITSYN I am of course confident that I will fulfill my tasks as a writer in all circumstances -- from my gr...
ALEXANDR SOLZHENITSYN