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I think happiness is love. Vladimir Putin

Happiness Love Think

It's kind of bittersweet. The human spirit is not measured by the size of the act, but by the size of the heart. Yakov Smirnoff

Heart Kind Bittersweet Spirit Human Size Act Measured Human Spirit

Only when the sense of the pain of others begins does man begin. Yevgeny Yevtushenko

Man Sense Pain Others Only Does Begin Begins

Literature transmits incontrovertible condensed experience... from generation to generation. In this way literature becomes the living memory of a nation. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Memory Generation Experience Nation Living Way Becomes Condensed Literature Incontrovertible

Unaware of the absurdity of it, we introduce our own petty household rules into the economy of the universe for which the life of generations, peoples, of entire planets, has no importance in relation to the general development. Alexander Herzen

My 10th Sonata is a sonata of insects. Insects are born from the sun... they are the sun's kisses. Alexander Scriabin

Insects Sun Born Kisses Sonata

For a solo work I need a definite idea. For the present I have none. Alfred Schnittke

Work Definite Solo Idea None Present Need

Comrades, this man has a nice smile, but he's got iron teeth. Andrei A. Gromyko

Smile Man Comrades Nice Teeth He Got Iron

An artist never works under ideal conditions. If they existed, his work wouldn't exist, for the artist doesn't live in a vacuum. Some sort of pressure must exist. The artist exists because the world is not perfect. Art would be useless if the world were perfect, as man wouldn't look for harmony but would simply live in it. Andrei Tarkovsky

Work Art Man World Not Perfect Pressure Live Harmony Must Would Would-Be Some Perfect Never Simply Ideal Look Sort Because Were His Exist Existed Conditions Exists Artist Useless Works Vacuum

Why are people afraid of getting older? You feel wiser. You feel more mature. You feel like you know yourself better. You would trade that for softer skin? Not me! Anna Kournikova

After the baby, I got bigger, and I like it. I like me better now than when I was young and skinny. I don't understand this extreme fashion for being anorexic-skinny. We forgot about women with curves - real women. We're not embracing that anymore. Anna Netrebko

Fashion Me Women Better Young Baby Extreme Embracing About Better Now Like Understand Got Real Than Forgot Being Anymore After Bigger Real Women Curves Skinny Now

When a small child, I thought that success spelled happiness. I was wrong, happiness is like a butterfly which appears and delights us for one brief moment, but soon flits away. Anna Pavlova

Happiness Success Thought Small Small Child Delights Wrong Soon Like Child Which Us Moment Brief Appears Brief Moment Away Butterfly

To judge between good or bad, between successful and unsuccessful would take the eye of a God. Anton Chekhov

God Good Judge Eye Bad Would Take Between Unsuccessful Successful

Faith is an aptitude of the spirit. It is, in fact, a talent: you must be born with it. Anton Chekhov

Faith You Aptitude Must Born Spirit Fact Talent In Fact

The wealthy are always surrounded by hangers-on; science and art are as well. Anton Chekhov

Art Science Wealthy Well Always Surrounded

Pianists call me a composer, composers call me a pianist. The classicists think me a futurist, and the futurists call me a reactionary. Anton Rubinstein

Me Think Composer Composers Pianist Reactionary Call

They don't ask much of you. They only want you to hate the things you love and to love the things you despise. Boris Pasternak

Love You Hate Despise Only Want To Love Ask Much Things

No deep and strong feeling, such as we may come across here and there in the world, is unmixed with compassion. The more we love, the more the object of our love seems to us to be a victim. Boris Pasternak

Love World Strong Compassion Feeling Victim Our Our Love Strong Feeling Object Seems More Come May Us Across Deep Here

When I am in form, my style is a little bit stubborn, almost brutal. Sometimes I feel a great spirit of fight which drives me on. Boris Spassky

Great Me Fight Sometimes Style Bit Spirit Brutal Stubborn Drives Almost Feel Great Spirit Am Form Which Little Little Bit

You can build a throne with bayonets, but you can't sit on it for long. Boris Yeltsin

You Long Build Sit Bayonets Throne

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. Boris Yeltsin

Our Range Entire Proper More Potential Developing Attention Maintaining Devote Information While Warfare Means Nuclear Level Need

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. Boris Yeltsin

Life You People No Friends First Politician Numerous Ruin Top Those Rarely Temptations Generally Suppose Around Friends Discussed Ordinary Ordinary Life Profession Many Suffers Second Third

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