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Quotes by Ukrainian Authors

"We must improve our lives and we will do it together - all of our citizens and myself as president of Ukraine."


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"A Labour party is not a debating club, it is a party of action."


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"Knowledge has outstripped character development, and the young today are given an education rather than an upbringing."


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"The conviction of our Ukrainian nation is embedded in the pages of its history."


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"I got off the abutment and walked towards my office."


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"The Party of the Regions has won a convincing victory. We are ready to undertake responsibility for forming the Cabinet and we are calling on everyone to join us."


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"You need to work very hard, you have to spend a lot of time practicing your sport - six to seven hours daily."


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"Thus in such a Labour Party there can be no question of independent policy."


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"It is wonderful to see how happy all my friends in the LA Philharmonic are in their new home."


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"Every social organisation which is rooted in life still lasts a long time, even after the conditions from which it drew its strength have changed in a manner unfavourable to it."


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"If a Labour movement, on a bourgeois basis, has hitherto existed in the country where the new movement is awakening it will certainly not disappear all at once."


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"I have spoken with many former athletes, and they tell me the best time they had was in sports. I listen to them and use their experience in my career."


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"For me, there are no my people and strangers, no bad people and good people. All people are equal for me."


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"Without Socialism the working class is a heterogeneous mixture of different categories, some of which have independent, varying interests, sometimes opposed to each other."


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"The mass of workers, as yet non-Socialist, is retarded in its development towards Socialism."


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"I think that focusing on the money, on the business, is not enough."


17

"We can and must turn this page if we are friends and are prepared to look one another in the eye."


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"Sex in a woman's world has the same currency a penny has in a man's. Every penny saved is a penny earned in one world and in the next every sexual adventure is a literary experience."


16

"In general, if signs of sectarianism do appear in a Socialist Party, these are only the products of the absence of a broad Labour movement in the country."


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"This is definitely a playoff team. There's no question about that. It's just a matter of how much we want it."


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"All of us love applause, and so we should - it means that the listener likes us!"


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"The enmity of such a party towards Socialism does not mean that the members are only prejudiced against it because they do not know it; it means that they are possessed of bourgeois ideas, and wish to determine their policy accordingly."


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"Mozart often wrote to his family that certain variations or sections of pieces were so successful that they had to be encored immediately, even without waiting for the entire piece to end."


15

"We talked to the referees before the game; there's always new situations to adjust, for the refs and for us as well. Even on the ice, it's good for players to talk and interact with the referee."
Talk,


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"The Olympics are always a special competition, it is very difficult to predict what will happen."


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"He leaned about the same way in falling towards Jacqueline, forward, down towards the bottom of the car."
Car,


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"I think that, generally, you need to live with your sport 24 hours a day."


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"I have bought pole vault equipment, the landing areas, posts, which costs a lot of money. We pay for coaches."


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"I don't need power at the cost of spilled blood."


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"I have always thought that my ear is also very influenced by my eyes."


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"You could cover the whole earth with asphalt, but sooner or later green grass would break through."


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"I usually only play with very close friends."


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"Pianists don't argue too much generally because we have such a hard time just getting things right; arguing is for string players."


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"Scientists often have a naive faith that if only they could discover enough facts about a problem, these facts would somehow arrange themselves in a compelling and true solution."


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