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Quotes by Russian Authors
"Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the 20th century, and more than anywhere else this disease is reflected in the press."
"No law of nature, however general, has been established all at once; its recognition has always been preceded by many presentiments."
"And I suggested to change very simple way to Olympic Games, in one competition, two different levels. Separate from, until sixteen, and after sixteen years old."
"By striving to do the impossible, man has always achieved what is possible. Those who have cautiously done no more than they believed possible have never taken a single step forward."
"Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid."
"Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it."
"Without a revolutionary theory there cannot be a revolutionary movement."
"Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us."
"Between Countess Nordston and Levin there had been established those relations, not infrequent in society, in which two persons, while ostensibly remaining on friendly terms, are contemptuous of each other to such a degree that they cannot even treat each other seriously and cannot even insult each one another."
"It is true that liberty is precious; so precious that it must be carefully rationed."
"Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas."
"Once you've been in space, you appreciate how small and fragile the Earth is."
"Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values."
"To my utter despair I have discovered, and discover every day anew, that there is in the masses no revolutionary idea or hope or passion."
"It would have been difficult to design a path out of communism worse than the one that has been followed."
"We don't appreciate what we have until it's gone. Freedom is like that. It's like air. When you have it, you don't notice it."
"The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end."
"A plague on eminence! I hardly dare cross the street anymore without a convoy, and I am stared at wherever I go like an idiot member of a royal family or an animal in a zoo; and zoo animals have been known to die from stares."
"I refer to calls for humanitarian intervention in the affairs of another state - a new idea, this - even when they are made under the pretext of defending human rights and freedoms."
"I'm not the next anyone, I'm the first Maria Sharapova."
"We are not abandoning our convictions, our philosophy or traditions, nor do we urge anyone to abandon theirs."
"Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners."
"In ballet a complicated story is impossible to tell... we can't dance synonyms."
"Russia is a part of European culture. Therefore, it is with difficulty that I imagine NATO as an enemy."
"You must obey the law, always, not only when they grab you by your special place."
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