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What the scientists have in their briefcases is terrifying.

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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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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Call it what you will, incentives are what get people to work harder.
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If you start throwing hedgehogs under me, I shall throw a couple of porcupines under you.
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But life is a great school. It thrashes and bangs and teaches you.
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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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Let there be more corn and more meat and let there be no hydrogen bombs at all.
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the construction of a communist society would be completed 'in the main' by 1980
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In a fight you don't stop to choose your cudgels.
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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 don't understand the music but I certainly understand the girl singer!
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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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I worked at a factory owned by Germans, at coal pits owned by Frenchmen, and at a chemical plant owned by Belgians. There I discovered something about capitalists. They are all alike, whatever the nationality. All they wanted from me was the most work for the least money that kept me alive. So I became a communist.
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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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I know what I say at times is not very diplomatic.
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The United States will eventually fly the Communist red flag…The American people will hoist it themselves.
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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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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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If you cannot catch a bird of paradise, better take a wet hen.
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The one who loses his head no longer cares about his hair.
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