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Quotes by Russian Authors
"Borkin: Ladies and gentlemen, why are you so glum? Sitting there like a jury after it's been sworn in! ... Let's think up something. What would you like? Forfeits, tug of war, catch, dancing, fireworks?"
"As in an explosion, I would erupt with all the wonderful things I saw and understood in this world."
"Create your own method. Don't depend slavishly on mine. Make up something that will work for you! But keep breaking traditions, I beg you."
"Chess for me is not a game, but an art. Yes, and I take upon myself all those responsibilities which an art imposes on its adherents."
"If the opposition disarms, well and good. If it refuses to disarm, we shall disarm it ourselves."
"At the time of the Revolution, dogs howled day and night all over Russia."
"There was no doubt that sooner or later we will fight. But we will fight not in the way of the dissidents' protests. We understood that we needed to be as professional as possible."
"Why is it that right-wing bastards always stand shoulder to shoulder in solidarity, while liberals fall out among themselves?"
"Up to nineteen seventy six when I quit gymnastics I was very, disappointed because I didn't have anything which is, live with. I didn't have a friend so I didn't have a coach anymore."
"How many people in the world is, each of them is individual. And I like to eat bread, somebody don't like that. You know this is the same in gymnastics."
"It was almost forbidden in the Soviet Union to study the New Economic Policy."
"The negative side is that sometimes it is beyond control."
"Comrades, this man has a nice smile, but he's got iron teeth."
"To destroy the life that dwells in othersis beyond your power. The life of those you have slainhas vanished from your eyes, but is not destroyed. Youthought to lengthen your own life and to shorten theirs,but you cannot do this. Life knows neither time norspace. The life of a moment, and the life of a thousandyears: your life and the life of all the visible and invisiblebeings in the world, are equal. To destroy life, or to alterit, is impossible; for life is the one thing that exists. Allelse, but seems to us to be."
"There were no strategic mistakes that could affect Russia's history and it further development. No, there were no such mistakes. Tactical errors were made in some less significant options, problems and so on. But, on the whole, Russia embarked on a correct path and it changed."
"Does it matter whether it was a dream or a reality, if the dream made known to me the truth?"
"Russia also declared its independence. This was approved by the Supreme Soviet, and you know and remember that there was the Declaration on the Independence of Russia."
"There is a tragic clash between Truth and the world. Pure undistorted truth burns up the world."
"A left turn in the fate of Russia is as necessary as it is inevitable."
"Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something."
"The only peace that can be made with a dictator is once that must be based on deterrence. For today, the dictator may be your friend, but tomorrow he will need you as an enemy."
"Science, which cuts its way through the muddy pond of daily life without mingling with it, casts its wealth to right and left, but the puny boatmen do not know how to fish for it."
"The diversification of the people's demand could not be followed by the state apparatus."
"Life has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me to live."
"Unlimited power in the hands of limited people always leads to cruelty."
"And, in nineteen seventy two Olympic Games I wasn't really going to be a star, and overnight I became a star."
"The man who has a conscience suffers whilst acknowledging his sin. That is his punishment."
"The kind of capitalism I hate most is crony capitalism, the friends who decide. These are things which should be killed in Russia."
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