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"If we meet an honest and intelligent politician, a dozen, a hundred, we say they aren't like politicians at all, and our category of politicians stays unchanged; we know what politicians are like."
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"If a politician obtained a great wealth after he has been elected, his being an immoral corrupt man is not a possibility but it is a self-evident reality!"

"If a country is not governed well, all sort of disasters will become a routine of that country!"

"Some politicians are much noisier than the dogs! Just like teaching a dog how to hush, public must likewise teach those politicians to shush!"

"Is your country under great dangers? Light is gone and the darkness is everywhere? You don't know whom to trust and what to do? Read the history of your country! There you will find out the best map for the way out!"

"Here is a tragicomic reality of all the regimes: People work hard to feed their thief politicians, their thief kings and thief queens or their thief presidents! And therefore the tragicomic reality of all the times is this: There can exist no thieves without the support of people!"
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"A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times."

"It is better to entertain an idea than to take it home to live with you for the rest of your life."

"In the United States, there one feels free... Except from the Americans - but every pearl has its oyster."

"I decided that Europeans and Americans are like men and women: they understand each other worse, and it matters less, than either of them suppose."

"I think that one possible definition of our modern culture is that it is one in which nine-tenths of our intellectuals can't read any poetry."

"One of the most obvious facts about grown-ups, to a child, is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child."
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