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We say the name of God, but that is only habit.

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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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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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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No one is born a Communist... in the Soviet Union farmers keep on looking in the barn for their horses even after they have given them to the collective.
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Even now we feel that Stalin was devoted to Communism, he was a Marxist, this cannot and should not be denied.
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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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In a fight you don't stop to choose your cudgels.
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Comrades! We must abolish the cult of the individual decisively, once and for all
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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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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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If you live among dogs, keep a stick. After all, this is what a hound has teeth for-to bite when he feels like it!
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The living will envy the dead.
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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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Economics is a subject that does not greatly respect one's wishes.
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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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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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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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I don't understand the music but I certainly understand the girl singer!
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In the future, if nuclear weapons are unleashed there will be no front and no rear.
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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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Any fool can start a war, and once he's done so, even the wisest of men are helpless to stop it - especially if it's a nuclear war.
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