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If you cannot catch a bird of paradise, better take a wet hen.
Nikita Khrushchev
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Nikita Khrushchev
Age: 77 †
Born: 1894
Born: April 3
Died: 1971
Died: September 11
Former General Secretary Of The Communist Party Of The Soviet Union
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Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev
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The John Birch Society is Communism's greatest ally. With its help we will divide and confuse the American people until they have lost faith in their Government, their nation has ceased to be a major world power, and their country is ripe for revolution.
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The one who loses his head no longer cares about his hair.
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I once said, 'We will bury you,' and I got into trouble with it. Of course we will not bury you with a shovel. Your own working class will bury you.
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Do you think when two representatives holding diametrically opposing views get together and shake hands, the contradictions between our systems will simply melt away? What kind of a daydream is that?
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Call it what you will, incentives are what get people to work harder.
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The purpose of the United Nations should be to protect the essential sovereignty of nations, large and small.
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The two most powerful nations of the world had been squared off against each other, each with its finger on the button. You'd have thought that war was inevitable. But both sides showed that if the desire to avoid war is strong enough, even the most pressing dispute can be solved by compromise. And a compromise over Cuba was indeed found.
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What innocence, may I ask, is being played here when it is known that this virtuous damsel has already got a dozen illegitimate children?
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The USA and USSR will only agree when shrimps learn to fly.
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When I was young, I worked for a capitalist twelve hours a day and I was always tired. Now I work for myself twenty hours a day and I never get tired
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Comrades! We must abolish the cult of the individual decisively, once and for all
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Revolutions are not made for export.
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In the future, if nuclear weapons are unleashed there will be no front and no rear.
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Freedom in capitalist countries exists only for those who possess money and who consequently hold power.
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Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think. Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge where there is no river.
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