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"I am a Soviet man, and Yeltsin is a Soviet man - maybe our grandchildren will be different."
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"Nothing is poetical if plain daylight is not poetical; and no monster should amaze us if the normal man does not amaze."
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"A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good."
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"I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act."
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"Whoever has provoked men to rage against him has always gained a party in his favor, too."
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"Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat."
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"No man may make another free."
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"Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men."
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"Do we elect a man because of what he stands for, because of where he stands on the issues, because how he makes the nation feel?"
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"In every author let us distinguish the man from his works."
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"We're more sexually repressed than men, having been given a much more strict puritanical code of behavior than men ever have."
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"I am a Soviet man, and Yeltsin is a Soviet man - maybe our grandchildren will be different."
Man
"For 73 years a totalitarian regime ruled the country. Totalitarian regime."
Nation
"You must go deeper into Russia - 150 kilometres from Moscow or more, and look there. The kids are fed with cattle feed - people don't get paid for half a year."
People
"As I understand I took most so-called democratic states about 200 years on average to build their democracies. That is why, when we go to sleep under totalitarian rule and wake up in a democracy, it makes me laugh."
Democracy
"First of all I would make about 80% of the people law-abiding citizens again. The policy which is carried out now makes every entrepreneur and businessman a thief against his own will."
People
"I counted on sixty days only, but I held out for 133. I didn't go into power, but to get power I borrowed some power from the President and made him sign a number of decrees and give me enough power to create a system capable of handling crisis situations."
Power
"There is no reason why I should call myself a democrat."
Reason
"And this system sorted out the Chechen war in just 20 days. This way, I used the President's power, he didn't use me. It wasn't hard for me to leave - it isn't my scene. I have nothing to do there."
War
"I have equal contempt for both left and right radicals."
Politics
"In order to build basic democracy here we'll need lives of two generations - at least forty years."
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