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"The kind of capitalism I hate most is crony capitalism, the friends who decide. These are things which should be killed in Russia."
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"Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree."

"One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood."

"Everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends."

"For how many things, which for our own sake we should never do, do we perform for the sake of our friends."

"Piper: it looks like we have hole. Percy: Yeah we've got a dam hole! (LOL-ing) Piper: What! Percy: Inside joke. (still LOL-ing) Piper: Whatever."

"I am sorry to think that you do not get a man's most effective criticism until you provoke him. Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness."

"True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance."

"Never injure a friend, even in jest."

"Friendships founded on laughter are always fortuitous."

"Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty."
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"These guys were the real owners of the country, and for them to discuss with this young guy who becomes a member of the government was absolutely unacceptable."

"Killing the private property-that was the center of the Marxist economy and Marxist ideology. That was the center of the Lenin ideology."

"I joined the city government, and we start to operate as the bureaucrats on the local level, so we were the only ones in the whole Russian team who were experienced in practical bureaucratic management in the complicated condition of 1990."

"The red directors were one of the main political forces. Another force was the former Soviet ministers who lost everything because of the transformation of the Soviet Union to Russia."

"You need to find somebody who will speak the same language. We understand that we couldn't have any kind of discussion without permission, without a legal framework behind it."

"There was no doubt that sooner or later we will fight. But we will fight not in the way of the dissidents' protests. We understood that we needed to be as professional as possible."

"You're never able to please everybody, especially when you're transforming a country like Russia."

"The Bolsheviks started not just on the killing of private property; they were trying to abolish money itself."
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