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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Quotes: Human beings are born with different capacities. If they are free, they are not equal. And if they are equal, they are not free.
         

Human beings are born with different capacities. If they are free, they are not equal. And if they are equal, they are not free.


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Human beings are born with different capacities. If they are free, they are not equal. And if they are equal, they are not free.
         



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