We have to condemn publicly the very idea that some people have the right to repress others. In keeping silent about evil, and burying it so deep within us that no sign of it appears on the surface, we are implanting it, and it will rise up a thousand fold in the future. 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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