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If you cannot catch a bird of paradise, better take a wet hen.

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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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Statesperson
Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev
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If you live among wolves you have to act like a wolf.
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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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You must never believe all these things which the scientists say because they always want more than they can get-they are never satisfied.
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Everyone can err, but Stalin considered that he never erred, that he was always right. He never acknowledged to anyone that he made any mistake, large or small, despite the fact that he made not a few mistakes in the matter of theory and in his practical activity.
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When all the world is socialist, Switzerland will have to remain capitalist, so that it can tell us the price of everything.
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America has been in existence for 150 years and this is the level she has reached. We have existed not quite 42 years and in another seven years we will be on the same level as America. When we catch you up, in passing you by, we will wave to you.
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The main difference for the history of the world if I had been shot rather than Kennedy is that Onassis probably wouldn't have married Mrs Khrushchev.
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Just imagine: I, a Premier, a Soviet representative, when I came here to this city, I was given a plan - a program of what I was to be shown and whom I was to meet here. But just now, I was told that I could not go to Disneyland. I asked, 'Why not?' What is it, do you have rocket-launching pads there? I do not know
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You Americans are so gullible. No, you won't accept communism outright, but we'll keep feeding you small doses of socialism until you'll finally wake up and find you already have communism. We won't have to fight you. We'll so weaken your economy until you'll fall like overripe fruit into our hands.
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No matter how humble a man's beginnings, he achieves the stature of the office to which he is elected.
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President Roosevelt proved that a President could serve for life. Truman proved that anyone could be elected. Eisenhower proved that your country can be run without a President.
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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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Economics is a subject that does not greatly respect one's wishes.
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Let there be more corn and more meat and let there be no hydrogen bombs at all.
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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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When you are skinning your customers, you should leave some skin on to heal, so that you can skin them again.
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There are still some people who think that we have Stalin to thank for all our progress, who quake before Stalin's dirty under-draws, who stand at attention and salute them.
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I happened to read recently a remark by the American nuclear physicist W. Davidson, who noted that the explosion of one hydrogen bomb releases a greater amount of energy than all the explosions set off by all countries in all wars known in the entire history of mankind. And he, apparently, is right.
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Revolutions are not made for export.
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But life is a great school. It thrashes and bangs and teaches you.
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