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“For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business.”
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“Sometimes it seems that the leaders of nations are little boys with chips on their shoulders, daring each other to knock them off.”
― A Russian Journal
― A Russian Journal
“They taught us a toast in Ukranian which we like: 'Let us drink to make people at home happy.' And they toasted again to peace, always to peace. Both of these men had been soldiers, and both of them had been wounded, and they drank to peace.”
― A Russian Journal
― A Russian Journal
“There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.”
― War and Peace
― War and Peace
“In Russia it is always the future that is thought of. It is the crops next year, it is the comfort that will come in ten years, it is the clothes that will be made very soon. If ever a people took its energy from hope, it is the Russian people.”
― A Russian Journal
― A Russian Journal
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James Mustich's 1000 Books to Read Before You Die
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