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Boris Yeltsin

I especially love driving down a hill directly at a tree and swerving to one side at the last moment. That’s my way to relax.
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Crazy Mad Tree
We want peace and a political solution to the situation in Chechnya.
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Country Peace People Political Want
I will not step down, I will not resign, … I will work to the end of my term in office under the constitution. In the year 2000, there will be presidential elections under the constitution and I will not run in those elections.
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Office Running Years
We, Russia, are prepared to work with others. I am convinced that stability and security in Europe cannot be considered without taking Russia into account.
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Country People Work
International terrorism is throwing down a challenge, and not just to Russia.
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Challenges Country People Terrorism
A sense of proportion and humanitarian action are not issues for terrorists. Their aim is that of killing and destroying.
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Action Issues Killing
We Russians are already living, not getting ready to live.
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Country Living People Ready
Russia also declared its independence. This was approved by the Supreme Soviet, and you know and remember that there was the Declaration on the Independence of Russia.
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Country Independence People Remember
It is especially important to encourage unorthodox thinking when the situation is critical: At such moments every new word and fresh thought is more precious than gold. Indeed, people must not be deprived of the right to think their own thoughts.
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Courage Inspirational Thinking
We don’t appreciate what we have until it’s gone. Freedom is like that. It’s like air. When you have it, you don’t notice it.
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Air Freedom Yoga
I am convinced that the moment is coming when, with its message of eternal, universal values, it will come to the aid of our society. For in these words: “Thou shalt not kill; Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself,” lie those very moral principles that will enable us to survive even the most critical situations.
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Lying Principle Society
Money, big money (which is actually a relative concept) is always, under any circumstances, a seduction, a test of morals, a temptation to sin.
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Money Temptation Tests
A man must live like a great brilliant flame and burn as brightly as he can. In the end he burns out. But this is far better than a mean little flame.
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Flame Mean Men
I ask you to forgive me for not fulfilling some hopes of those people who believed that we would be able to jump from the totalitarian past into a bright, rich and civilized future in one go.
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Ask Forgive Past People
Let’s not talk about Communism. Communism was just and idea, just pie in the sky.
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Ideas Sky Talking
A government is not an old pair of socks that you throw away.
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Government Pairs Sock

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