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.
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.
Let's not talk about Communism. Communism was just an idea, just pie in the sky.
While maintaining our nuclear potential at the proper level, we need to devote more attention to developing the entire range of means of information warfare.
There are numerous bugbears in the profession of a politician. First, ordinary life suffers. Second, there are many temptations to ruin you and those around you. And I suppose third, and this is rarely discussed, people at the top generally have no friends.
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.
Let's not talk about Communism. Communism was just an idea, just pie in the sky.
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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Russia is on the brink of catastrophe.
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