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A politician must have some scruples, a certain decency he cannot smear himself in the mud for the sake of a high ideal.
Boris Yeltsin
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Boris Yeltsin
Age: 76 †
Born: 1931
Born: February 1
Died: 2007
Died: April 23
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Former Russian President
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I especially love driving down a hill directly at a tree and swerving to one side at the last moment. That's my way to relax.
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