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I don't have enough information, and enough courage, to come up with a definite version of events. And I think it is too dangerous for me to do so.

Garry Kasparov

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Garry Kasparov
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: April 13
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I certainly want to be involved in politics and help shape the transition. I am in contact with regime critics who had to leave for the West. One of them is Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the former businessman, who had to endure 10 years in a prison camp.
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If you wish to succeed, you must brave the risk of failure.
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Many so-called pragmatists want nothing to do with space exploration or other kinds of ambitious endeavours that don't have a clear payoff. This mentality is hugely damaging to our success as a civilization. Our desire to understand the universe is kindled by curiosity and wonder, and this has fuelled countless scientific breakthroughs.
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Values-oriented foreign policy of the free world would be much better, supported by the self-awareness of being on the right side of history.
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Putin recognized that if he could get enough money, everything would be under control.
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A brilliant strategy is, certainly, a matter of intelligence, but intelligence without audaciousness is not enough.
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I'm looking forward to the day when my country is saved - and the current winner becomes a loser.
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Excelling at chess has long been considered a symbol of more general intelligence. That is an incorrect assumption in my view, as pleasant as it might be.
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