For me and my friends, for people who think the way I do over there, for all ordinary Soviet citizens, America evokes a mixture of admiration and compassion.. You're a country of the future, a young country, with yet untapped possiblities, enormous territory, great breadth of spirit, generosity, magnanimity. But these qualities–strength, generosity, and magnanimity–are usually combined in a man and even in a whole country with trustfulness. And this has already done you a disservice several times. . Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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  1. The meaning of earthly existence lies not, as we have grown used to thinking, in prospering but in the development of the soul.
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