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“The true reason of Ms. Rice's attack against Russia is very simple. Condoleezza Rice is a very cruel, offended woman who lacks men's attention. Releasing such stupid remarks gives her the feeling of being fulfilled. This is the only way for her to attract men's attention.”

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Author:Vladimir Zhirinovsky

“If there is a pattern, it will come back - maybe in Russia more than anywhere else, because it has collapsed so many times. Maybe less so here in the States, because here the society is so young.”

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Author:Tatyana Tolstaya

“The real political life in Russia unfortunately is not in the parliament but on the streets and in the media.”

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Author:Garry Kasparov

“I've always held the view that great states need strategic space. I mean, George Washington took his space from George III. Britain took it from just about everybody. Russia took all of Eastern Europe. Germany's taken it from everywhere they can, and China will want its space too.”

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Author:Paul Keating

“My mother would take groups of students to different countries and always brought us along, so by the time I was 10, I had been to Russia, China, Nicaragua and several other countries.”

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Author:Eliza Dushku

“I played baseball in college, and then I went to Russia to study acting and played some pro ball over there.”

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Author:Jon Bernthal

“My dad was born in Chicago in 1908... his parents came from Russia. They settled in Chicago, where they lived in a little tiny grocery store with eight or nine children - in the backroom all together - and my grandmother got the idea to go into the movie business.”

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Author:Bob Balaban

“Jazz is about freedom within discipline. Usually a dictatorship like in Russia and Germany will prevent jazz from being played because it just seemed to represent freedom, democracy and the United States.”

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Author:Dave Brubeck

“Men who are scandalized at the lack of freedom in Russia do not ask themselves how real is liberty among the poor, the weak, and the ignorant in capitalist society.”

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Book:Beyond Nationalism: The Social Thought of Emily Greene Balch

Source: Beyond Nationalism: The Social Thought of Emily Greene Balch

“I've worked behind counters serving food, and I've lived on the circus train, and I've led bicycle tours in Eastern Europe and the Balkans and Russia. I've been a key liner for a newspaper, I've done typesetting. Oh, all sorts of things.”

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Author:Bonnie Jo Campbell

“In emerging democracies like Russia, in authoritarian states like Iran or even Yugoslavia, journalists play a vital role in civil society. In fact, they form the very basis of those new democracies and civil societies.”

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Author:Christiane Amanpour

“Every case involving cybercrime that I've been involved in, I've never found a master criminal sitting somewhere in Russia or Hong Kong or Beijing. It always ends up that somebody at the company did something they weren't supposed to do. They read an email, went to a website they weren't supposed to.”

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Author:Frank Abagnale

“Long term I do believe internationally there is a huge misunderstanding of Russia.”

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Author:Oleg Deripaska

“Russia's biggest problem is organized crime and its leaders are influenced by the Russian mafia. But it's not right to call it a Russian mafia, it's a Jewish mafia.”

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Author:David Duke

“Russia under President Putin is less democratic and less free today than when he assumed office. If Russia cannot fulfill its obligation to the G-8 and maintain a high standard of democratic governance then its membership should be suspended.”

Ifs Should Today President Office Standards Democratic Russia Obligation Governance Putin Suspended Membership High Standards Good Governance

Author:Vito Fossella

“Of course, the outcome of the war would not have been changed. The war was lost perhaps, when it was started. At least it was lost in the winter of '42, in Russia.”

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Author:Adolf Galland

“It came as a great shock to me when I heard that England and Soviet Russia had become allies. So much so that I thought that the people responsible in London were acting in a manner that no longer coincided with British imperial interests.”

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Author:John Amery

“The way the business things work in Russia is you have to meet people, you have to go through a certain amount of etiquette and business things are done just simply by a shake of the hand and whether they like you or not.”

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Author:Marc Almond

“Russia can be quite a dangerous place sometimes, but I never think about it.”

Thinking Sometimes Dangerous Russia Dangerous Places

Author:Marc Almond

“I love really, really deep, dark-as-Russia storylines. I love supernatural aspects. I grew up with ghost stories.”

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Author:Emma Bell

“If I have the choice of traveling to Russia, India or New Zealand alone for a week for preliminary discussions or to spend that week with my family, I routinely choose my family.”

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Author:Olafur Eliasson

“The collapse of Russia was the second great event of 1917.”

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Book:History of the World War for Human Rights

Source: History of the World War for Human Rights

“The success of the Allies in the west was in a measure offset by Teutonic victories in the east. When the invasion of Belgium began, Russia made immediate efforts to counteract by invasion of East Prussia.”

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Book:Kelly Miller's History of the World War for Human Rights: An Intensely Human and Brilliant Account of the World War; why American Entered the Conflict; what the Allies Fought For; and a Thrilling Account of the Important Part Taken by the Negro in the Tragic Defeat of Germany ...

Source: Kelly Miller's History of the World War for Human Rights: An Intensely Human and Brilliant Account of the World War; why American Entered the Conflict; what the Allies Fought For; and a Thrilling Account of the Important Part Taken by the Negro in the Tragic Defeat of Germany ...

“Time passed by. I had furnished steam hammers to the principal foundries in England. I had sent them abroad, even to Russia. At length it became known to the Lords of the Admiralty that a new power in forging had been introduced.”

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Book:James Nasmyth, Engineer: An Autobiography

Source: James Nasmyth, Engineer: An Autobiography

“I left Russia in 1993 optimistic that democracy had taken hold despite the obstacles.”

Left Democracy Taken Obstacles Russia Despite Optimistic

Author:Robert Kagan