Quotes
Authors
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

"It was only when I lay there on the rotting prison straw that I sensed within myself the first stirrings of good. Gradually it was disclosed to me that the line separating good and evil passes not between states nor between social classes nor between political parties, but right through every human heart, through all human hearts. And that is why I turn back to the years of my imprisonment and say, sometimes to the astonishment of those about me, bless you, prison, for having been a part of my life."

-- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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“I set my sights upon becoming the kind of artist who would make a contribution to art history”

Source : Judy Chicago, Edward Lucie-Smith (1999). “Women and Art: Contested Territory”, Watson-Guptill Publications
“Decision is a vastly important thing with a convicted sinner. He must choose, or he must be lost. If he will not do it, he may expect the Divine Spirit to depart from him, and leave him to his own way.”
“The quickest way to create a boy or man who lacks compassion is to judge and shame his feelings.”
“Manufacturing and commercial monopolies owe their origin not to a tendency imminent in a capitalist economy but to governmental interventionist policy directed against free trade and laissez faire.”
“Surrealism will usher you into death, which is a secret society. It will glove your hand, burying therein the profound M with which the word Memory begins. Do not forget to make proper arrangements for your last will and testament: speaking personally, I ask that I be taken to the cemetery in a moving van. May my friends destroy every last copy of the printing of the Speech concerning the Modicum of Reality.”
“Go as far as you can, [young scientists]. The world needs you badly.”
“To the wrongs that need resistance, To the right that needs assistance, To the future in the distance, Give yourselves.”
“A service is said to be scalable if when we increase the resources in a system, it results in increased performance in a manner proportional to resources added,”

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