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There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven't yet met.

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Man can embody truth but he cannot know it.

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Translation is like a woman. If it is beautiful, it is not faithful. If it is faithful, it is most certainly not beautiful.

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Sorrow happens, hardship happens, the hell with it, who never knew the price of happiness, will not be happy.

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Time has a way of demonstrating that the most stubborn are the most intelligent.

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Justice is like a train that is nearly always late.

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Literature has to serve as a moral control of politics.

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In Russia all tyrants believe poets to be their worst enemies.

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Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers.

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Only when the sense of the pain of others begins does man begin.

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I love sport because I love life, and sport is one of the basic joys of life.

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The man form is higher than the angel form; of all forms it is the highest. Man is the highest being in creation, because he aspires to freedom.

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The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.

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There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first; when you learn to live for others, they will live for you.

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Let my soul smile through my heart and my heart smile through my eyes, that I may scatter rich smiles in sad hearts.

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Remain calm, serene, always in command of yourself. You will then find out how easy it is to get along.

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The happiness of one's own heart alone cannot satisfy the soul; one must try to include, as necessary to one's own happiness, the happiness of others.

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There are always two forces warring against each other within us.

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The commercialization of sport is the democratization of sport.

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I've always seen the Olympics as a place where you could act out your differences on the athletic field with a sense of sportsmanship and fairness and mutual respect.

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