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"I don't think Russia will follow the United States's way. I don't think Russia will follow the French way. I'm sure Russia will find its own way."
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"When you accept employment, you are admitting that you cannot think or develop yourself."

"Dependency on stuff, on people and on things is one of the greatest things that could kill."

"Phew. I thought I was going to have to slay a few dragons for you while I was here. 'I'm no damsel in distress, Your Highness. I can take care of myself."

"And don't consult anyone's opinions but your own."

"When you are dead you are independent, when you are alive your always dependent. It really doesn't matter are you there or there there is somebody above you, always!"

"Don't be afraid of being alone; remember, when the sun rises, it rises with nobody at its side."

"Don't let someone rearrange your path because they lost sight of their own."

"Independence is a heady draught, and if you drink it in your youth, it can have the same effect on the brain as young wine does. It does not matter that its taste is not always appealing. It is addictive and with each drink you want more."

"I have no wish for a second husband. I had enough of the first. I like to have my own way to lie down mistress, and get up master."

"She wanted to be herself again, to recover all that she had been obliged to give up in half a century of servitude that had doubtless made her happy but which, once her husband was dead, did not leave her even the vestiges of her identity."
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"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."

"In 1995 the whole political situation was very complicated. I was the first deputy prime minister, and at the same time I had very low influence in the government."

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

"I'm communicating with the directors of the Soviet companies, and I see that it is wrong, but when I go to the official discussions, they discuss we should change the color of the walls."

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

"There is a state that is able to understand the demand in the economy. That state should use prices as an instrument for implementation of this understanding."

"I am joining the government not from the academic position but from St. Petersburg city council."
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