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"If advertisers spent the same amount of money on improving their products as they do on advertising then they wouldn't have to advertise them."

"Nobody was ever meant to remember or invent what he did with every cent."
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"In modern Russia, you have no official, formal assessment of this past. Nobody in any Russian document has said that the policy of the Soviet government was criminal, that it was terrible. No one has ever said this."


"Amin managed to invite both the US and Soviet ambassadors to his palace at the very same time and then deliberately kept them together in his waiting room."


"Amin is the shame of the whole world. The fact that he managed to rule so long and commit so many crimes was only possible thanks to the hypocrisy of the East and the West who were waging the Cold War for world domination."


"I remember that during the period leading up to independence in Angola in 1975, I was the only correspondent there at all for three months."


"He killed his enemies because he was afraid they would kill him. Amin ordered entire tribes to be put to death, because he feared they would rebel."


"This is the most intimate relationship between literature and its readers: they treat the text as a part of themselves, as a possession."


"There are several reasons why Russians view the oppressive state positively. First, in the Russian Orthodox religion, there is an understanding of authority as something sent by God."


"In the Russian experience, although the Russian state is oppressive, it is their state, it is part of their fabric, and so the relation between Russian citizens and their state is complicated."
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