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  • A World Split Apart (Solzhenitsyn Nailed it 30 Years Ago...Dynamite Read!!)

    08/17/2006 3:25:50 PM PDT · by Renfield · 30 replies · 1,579+ views
    Archives from Columbia University ^ | 6-8-78 | Alexander Solzhenitsyn
    Poster's note: this is a long read, but well worth it. Solzhenitsyn describes succinctly what many of us feel, but cannot express.Text of Address by Alexander Solzhenitsyn at Harvard Class Day Afternoon Exercises, Thursday, June 8, 1978 I am sincerely happy to be here with you on this occasion and to become personally acquainted with this old and most prestigious University. My congratulations and very best wishes to all of today's graduates. Harvard's motto is "Veritas." Many of you have already found out and others will find out in the course of their lives that truth eludes us if we...