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We were nearly one of the last to realize that in the age of information science the most expensive asset is knowledge.

Mikhail Gorbachev

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Mikhail Gorbachev
Age: 93
Born: 1931
Born: March 2
Environmentalist
Former General Secretary Of The Communist Party Of The Soviet Union
Jurist
Politician
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Krasnogvardeysky District
Stavropol Krai
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Life punishes those who come too late.
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Nature is reminding us that it used to exist without human beings.
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It sometimes seems to me that some of our Western partners do not want Russia to fully recover. They would like Russia to be in a subdued state, and they want Russian resources to be used for the benefit of the U.S. economy.
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If people don't like Marxism, they should blame the British Museum.
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Political leaders still think things can be done through force, but that cannot solve terrorism. Backwardness is the breeding ground of terror, and that is what we have to fight.
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My goal was to avoid bloodshed. But unfortunately there was some bloodshed, after all.
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The world will not accept dictatorship or domination.
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We need a new environmental consciousness on a global basis. To do this, we need to educate people.
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I think the United States is sick. It suffers from the sickness, the disease of being the victor and it needs to cure itself from this disease.
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The forests of Russia and Brazil are the lungs of the Earth.
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I believe, as Lenin said, that this revolutionary chaos may yet crystallize into new forms of life.
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No one, no single center, can today command the world. No single group of countries can do it. Under the current U.S. president, I don't think we can fundamentally change the situation as it is developing now. It is dangerous. The world is experiencing a period of growing global disarray.
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It is my firm belief that the infinite and uncontrollable fury of nuclear weapons should never be held in the hands of any mere mortal ever again, for any reason.
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I believe in the cosmos. All of us are linked to the cosmos.
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Jesus was the first socialist, the first to seek a better life for mankind.
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I support freedom and I support a free market economy, but it should be a socially oriented market economy. I support globalization, but it should be globalization with a human face.
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