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...peyote, Weston started having homo-sexual fantasies, which, after he quit the drug, disappeared. "But I am very glad that I had this experience for it has taught me to understand homosexuals a little better. It has also taught me why Freud was so fond of quoting the old proverb, 'Nothing human is alien to me.' "Before Weston finishes, he manages to construe a few more turgid moralisms for readers in the "square world...
...Russian proverb...
Absolutely Not. The Washington Star interviewed Mikhail A. Lavrentyev, vice president of the Soviet Academy of Sciences and a Capitol visitor. Although Lavrentyev does not smoke, he graciously tried to boost-or perhaps undermine?-the morale of tobacco addicts with an apposite Russian proverb. The heavy smoker, said Lavrentyev, will never be burglarized and will never grow old, "because he stays up all night coughing-and won't live long enough to enjoy...
...work for others without pay. She never accumulated property against the time of her death. A dirty white goat, a crippled cat, and rubber plants were her only possessions . . . We all lived beside her and never understood that she was that righteous one without whom, according to the proverb, no village can stand. Nor any city. Nor our whole land...
Asked if it is necessary to prove communism "better" than capitalism, Michael Kuhtarev, a journalist for Kemsomeiskaya Pravda, replied with an old Russian proverb: "Each bird praises its own lake. We think that our lake is very good. We like it. Therefore we praise it." He remarked that most Americans have a poor understanding of communism...