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Music's a good thing, it calm the beast in the man.
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Real liberty exists only there where exploitation has been annihilated, where no oppression of some peoples by others exists, where there is no unemployment and pauperism, where a person does not tremble because tomorrow he may lose his job, home and bread.
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A man's eyes should be torn out if he can only see the past.
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In the Soviet army it takes more courage to retreat than advance.
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Quantity has a quality all its own.
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American democracy and the Soviet system can exist simultaneously and compete peacefully. But one cannot develop into the other.
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I don't know what specific frontiers Germany could adopt for her purposes, but I think that those willing "to lend" a frontier to her can be found.
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For instance, our country wanted to effect a revolution, and did effect it, and now we are building a new classless society.
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The death of one man is tragic, but the death of thousands is statistic.
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Each position, each metre of the Soviet territory must be stubbornly defended, to the last drop of blood. We must cling to every inch of Soviet soil and defend it to the end!
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There are capitalist states which consider themselves cheated, during previous redivisions of spheres of influence, territories, sources of raw materials, markets, etc., and which would again desire to redivide them to their own advantage.
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It's not the people who vote that count. It's the people who count the votes.
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This war is not an ordinary war. It is the war of the entire Russian people. Not only to eliminate the danger hanging over our heads, but to aid all people groaning under the yoke of Fascism.
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When there's a person, there's a problem. When there's no person, there's no problem.
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Bukharin's a swine and surely worse than a swine because he thinks it below his dignity to write a couple of lines.
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In what do the activities of the Communist Parties consist? In what ways can they manifest themselves? These activities usually consist in the organization of working masses, in organizing meetings, demonstrations, strikes, etc. It is absolutely clear that American Communists cannot perform this in Soviet territory. The American workers are not in the U.S.S.R.
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When one man dies it is a tragedy, when thousands die it's statistics.
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Our new election system will spur on all institutions and organizations and will force them to improve their work.
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We [U.S.S.R. and U.S.A.] can exist peacefully together if we don't indulge in too much mutual fault-finding in all kinds of trifles.
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The people will always attempt to find the positive aspects of all circumstances, which, in themselves, are not susceptible to danger.
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Not a few organizations exist in our country which function poorly. Sometimes it happens that this or that local government or organ have to satisfy one or another of the many-sided and ever increasing demands of the working population of town and countryside.
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Everybody has a right to be stupid, but some people abuse the privilege.
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Take some exercise, try to recover the look of a human being.
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Remember how the first world war broke out. It broke out as a result of the desire to redivide the world.