Only those who decline to scramble up the career ladder are interesting as human beings. Nothing is more boring than a man with a career.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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More Quotes By Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
  1. Face the truth or the truth will face you!

  2. Challenging the truth is like playing tennis against the wall! The defeat is inevitable!

  3. The whispering of the truth is stronger than the thunderstorm of the untruth!

  4. With faith, you may get stuck in a very big lie and may lose the truth forever; but with doubt, you can always reach the truth!

  5. Max Lucado says that ‘A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.’ That is true and a man who wants to find out the truth must also do the same thing!

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