Sometimes ... when you stand face to face with someone, you cannot see his face.

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If what you have done yesterday still looks big to you, you haven't done much today.

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I believe, as Lenin said, that this revolutionary chaos may yet crystallize into new forms of life.

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I am a Communist, a convinced Communist! For some that may be a fantasy. But to me it is my main goal.

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We are not abandoning our convictions, our philosophy or traditions, nor do we urge anyone to abandon theirs.

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The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization.

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It is better to discuss things, to argue and engage in polemics than make perfidious plans of mutual destruction.

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Democracy is the wholesome and pure air without which a socialist public organization cannot live a full-blooded life.

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Without glasnost there is not, and there cannot be, democratism, the political creativity of the masses and their participation in management.

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It seems that the most important thing about Reagan was his anti-Communism and his reputation as a hawk who saw the Soviet Union as an 'evil empire.'

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