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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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"As only dead leaves allow the wind to blow them to and fro, never allow yourself to be swayed by popular opinion."

"No girl can permanently bolster up a lame-duck visitor, because these day it's every girl for herself."

"Don't wait for someone to bring you flowers. Plant your own garden and decorate your soul."

"Without being an independent individual, without having an independent mind, you become nothing more than a trivial slave or an obscure shadow!"

"I am not your dear; I cannot lie down: send me to school soon, Mrs. Reed, for I hate to live here."

"The only race you are guaranteed to win is the one you run alone."

"What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think.... It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude."

"Believe in yourself. Carve your own path. Build your own dreams. Be your own hero."

"Forget it. Never explain, never apologize. You can either write posthumously or you can't."

"Independence is paramount and freedom holds a lot of new possibilities, if all the chances are given at the right time."
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"For the producers, there was no reason to produce. You get money, but you couldn't use this money. For consumers, you could have money, but you have no way to use it because you go to the shop and see nothing."

"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."

"The kind of capitalism I hate most is crony capitalism, the friends who decide. These are things which should be killed in Russia."

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

"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."

"There are no two countries with the same style of economic mechanism, with the same capitalism."

"If I just produce the transparent ideal accepted by the Western experts, a process of privatization which will be very good but never happen, that means nothing."

"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."
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