Small: I want this book to be facts, to be important, to be history
Anatoli Boukreev
"I want this book to be facts, to be important, to be history"
Anatoli Boukreev, Athlete
Small: I offer my expertise and experience for hire in order to help a group of people reach the summit
Anatoli Boukreev
"I offer my expertise and experience for hire in order to help a group of people reach the summit"
Anatoli Boukreev, Athlete
Small: Liberalism, austere in political trifles, has learned ever more artfully to unite a constant protest against t
Alexander Herzen
"Liberalism, austere in political trifles, has learned ever more artfully to unite a constant protest against the government with a constant submission to it"
Alexander Herzen, Journalist
Small: When a small child, I thought that success spelled happiness. I was wrong, happiness is like a butterfly which
Anna Pavlova
"When a small child, I thought that success spelled happiness. I was wrong, happiness is like a butterfly which appears and delights us for one brief moment, but soon flits away"
Anna Pavlova, Dancer
Small: A review of summit day photographs will show that I was clothed in the latest, highest quality, high altitude
Anatoli Boukreev
"A review of summit day photographs will show that I was clothed in the latest, highest quality, high altitude gear, comparable, if not better, than that worn by the other members of our expedition"
Anatoli Boukreev, Athlete
Small: When I was 12, every little girl in Russia was trying to wear her hair like mine and playing tennis
Anna Kournikova
"When I was 12, every little girl in Russia was trying to wear her hair like mine and playing tennis"
Anna Kournikova, Athlete
Small: There are a lot of pretty girls. I am a tennis player first of all, that is why I am here, and if wasnt produc
Anna Kournikova
"There are a lot of pretty girls. I am a tennis player first of all, that is why I am here, and if wasn't producing results no one would notice me"
Anna Kournikova, Athlete
Small: There is nothing in the world more stubborn than a corpse: you can hit it, you can knock it to pieces, but you
Alexander Herzen
"There is nothing in the world more stubborn than a corpse: you can hit it, you can knock it to pieces, but you cannot convince it"
Alexander Herzen, Journalist
Small: Science, which cuts its way through the muddy pond of daily life without mingling with it, casts its wealth to
Alexander Herzen
"Science, which cuts its way through the muddy pond of daily life without mingling with it, casts its wealth to right and left, but the puny boatmen do not know how to fish for it"
Alexander Herzen, Journalist
Small: Life has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me to live
Alexander Herzen
"Life has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me to live"
Alexander Herzen, Journalist
Small: I just play for fun
Anna Kournikova
"I just play for fun"
Anna Kournikova, Athlete
Small: You must write for children in the same way as you do for adults, only better
"You must write for children in the same way as you do for adults, only better"
Maxim Gorky, Novelist
Small: You cant do without philosophy, since everything has its hidden meaning which we must know
"You can't do without philosophy, since everything has its hidden meaning which we must know"
Maxim Gorky, Novelist
Small: When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery
"When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery"
Maxim Gorky, Novelist
Small: When one loves somebody everything is clear - where to go, what to do - it all takes care of itself and one do
"When one loves somebody everything is clear - where to go, what to do - it all takes care of itself and one doesn't have to ask anybody about anything"
Maxim Gorky, Novelist
Small: When everything is easy one quickly gets stupid
"When everything is easy one quickly gets stupid"
Maxim Gorky, Novelist
Small: What jazz means to me is the worst kind of working conditions, the worst in cultural prejudice. The term jazz
"What 'jazz' means to me is the worst kind of working conditions, the worst in cultural prejudice. The term 'jazz' has come to mean the abuse and exploitation of black musicians"
Maxim Gorky, Novelist
Small: There is no one on earth more disgusting and repulsive than he who gives alms. Even as there is no one so mise
"There is no one on earth more disgusting and repulsive than he who gives alms. Even as there is no one so miserable as he who accepts them"
Maxim Gorky, Novelist
Small: The most beautiful words in the English language are not guilty
"The most beautiful words in the English language are 'not guilty'"
Maxim Gorky, Novelist
Small: Only mothers can think of the future - because they give birth to it in their children
"Only mothers can think of the future - because they give birth to it in their children"
Maxim Gorky, Novelist
Small: One has to be able to count if only so that at fifty one doesnt marry a girl of twenty
"One has to be able to count if only so that at fifty one doesn't marry a girl of twenty"
Maxim Gorky, Novelist
Small: Many contemporary authors drink more than they write
"Many contemporary authors drink more than they write"
Maxim Gorky, Novelist
Small: In the maxim of the past you cannot go anywhere
"In the maxim of the past you cannot go anywhere"
Maxim Gorky, Novelist
Small: In the carriages of the past you cant go anywhere
"In the carriages of the past you can't go anywhere"
Maxim Gorky, Novelist
Small: Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and
"Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is"
Maxim Gorky, Novelist
Small: A good man can be stupid and still be good. But a bad man must have brains
"A good man can be stupid and still be good. But a bad man must have brains"
Maxim Gorky, Novelist
Small: We deceive ourselves when we fancy that only weakness needs support. Strength needs it far more
"We deceive ourselves when we fancy that only weakness needs support. Strength needs it far more"
Madame Swetchine, Writer
Small: We consider the triumph of art to be not in the emotional or the psychological spheres, but rather in the cons
El Lissitzky
"We consider the triumph of art to be not in the emotional or the psychological spheres, but rather in the constructive"
El Lissitzky, Artist
Small: Let us create a new guild of craftsmen, without the class distinctions that raise an arrogant barrier between
El Lissitzky
"Let us create a new guild of craftsmen, without the class distinctions that raise an arrogant barrier between craftsman and artist!"
El Lissitzky, Artist
Small: The purpose of art is to impart the sensation of things as they are perceived and not as they are known
El Lissitzky
"The purpose of art is to impart the sensation of things as they are perceived and not as they are known"
El Lissitzky, Artist
Small: The task of the artist is to construct a new order of life
El Lissitzky
"The task of the artist is to construct a new order of life"
El Lissitzky, Artist
Small: The book is a piece of architecture. The text forms the columns the pages are the walls
El Lissitzky
"The book is a piece of architecture. The text forms the columns; the pages are the walls"
El Lissitzky, Artist
Small: The artist constructs a new symbol with his brush. This symbol is not a recognizable form of anything that is
El Lissitzky
"The artist constructs a new symbol with his brush. This symbol is not a recognizable form of anything that is already finished, already made, already existing in the world - it is a symbol of a new world, which is being built upon and which exists by way of people"
El Lissitzky, Artist
Small: The artist should not become an artisan
El Lissitzky
"The artist should not become an artisan"
El Lissitzky, Artist
Small: The constructor is the artist who develops the power of the machine to make it a spiritual organism
El Lissitzky
"The constructor is the artist who develops the power of the machine to make it a spiritual organism"
El Lissitzky, Artist
Small: Our country, like every modern state, needs profound democratic reforms. It needs political and ideological pl
"Our country, like every modern state, needs profound democratic reforms. It needs political and ideological pluralism, a mixed economy and protection of human rights and the opening up of society"
Andrei Sakharov, Physicist
Small: For me, the moral difficulties lie in the continual pressure brought to bear on my friends and immediate famil
"For me, the moral difficulties lie in the continual pressure brought to bear on my friends and immediate family, pressure which is not directed against me personally but which at the same time is all around me"
Andrei Sakharov, Physicist
Small: I am not yet ready to be Tsar. I know nothing of the business of ruling
"I am not yet ready to be Tsar. I know nothing of the business of ruling"
Nicholas II, Royalty
Small: I wanted to invent an engine that could run for ever. I could have developed a new train, had I stayed in the
"I wanted to invent an engine that could run for ever. I could have developed a new train, had I stayed in the railway. It would have looked like the AK-47 though"
Mikhail Kalashnikov, Inventor
Small: What we need is Star Peace and not Star Wars
Mikhail Gorbachev
"What we need is Star Peace and not Star Wars"
Mikhail Gorbachev, Statesman
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