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A considerable share of the world's population still cannot afford comfortable housing, education and quality health care.
Vladimir Putin
PoliticianRussian1952 · 20th century
3.8 · 20 votes · 34 reads
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Society
A society should never become like a pond with stagnant water, without movement. That's the most important thing.
Mikhail Gorbachev
PoliticianRussian1931 · 20th century
4.0 · 63 votes · 170 reads
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Thought and Reason
A lie told often enough becomes the truth.
Vladimir Lenin
LeaderRussian1870 · 19th century
4.8 · 51 votes · 50 reads
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Thought and Reason
A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator the smaller the fraction.
Leo Tolstoy
WriterRussian1828 · 19th century
3.8 · 5 votes · 135 reads
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Art and Culture
A good composer does not imitate; he steals.
Igor Stravinsky
MusicianRussian1882 · 19th century
3.4 · 41 votes · 41 reads
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Government and Politics
A man must live like a great brilliant flame and burn as brightly as he can. In the end he burns out. But this is far better than a mean little flame.
Boris Yeltsin
PoliticianRussian1931 · 20th century
4.3 · 31 votes · 103 reads
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Government and Politics
A sincere diplomat is like dry water or wooden iron.
Joseph Stalin
LeaderRussian1879 · 19th century
4.9 · 23 votes · 82 reads
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Various
A just cause is not ruined by a few mistakes.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
WriterRussian1821 · 19th century
3.5 · 16 votes · 163 reads
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Feelings
A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
NovelistRussian1918 · 20th century
4.5 · 34 votes · 29 reads
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Nature
Any idiot can face a crisis, it's the day to day living that wears you out.
Anton Chekhov
AuthorRussian1860 · 19th century
3.2 · 26 votes · 78 reads
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