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Today progress is so swift in all fields that the education received by young people is only a foundation that requires the constant acquisition of knowledge.

— Leonid Brezhnev

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Soviet people are better off materially and richer spiritually.

Our Friends Speak : Greetings to the 25th CPSU Congress (1976)

The rout of fascism, in which the Soviet Union played the decisive role, generated a mighty tide of socio-political changes which swept across the globe.

Selected Speeches and Writings (1980)

It is madness for any country to build its policy with an eye to nuclear war.

Indefensible Weapons : The Political and Psychological Case Against Nuclearism (1992)

The most important thing in my life, its leitmotif, has been the constant and close contacts with working people, with workers and peasants.

Sputnik : Digest (1967)

Detente is a readiness to resolve differences and conflicts not by force, not by threats and sabre-rattling, but by peaceful means, at the conference table.

Brezhnev Reconsidered (2002)

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All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man's life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom.

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The greater part of humanity is too much harassed and fatigued by the struggle with want, to rally itself for a new and sterner struggle with error.

Friedrich Schiller On the Aesthetic Education of Man (1794)

Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.

Bertrand Russell

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