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War means blind obedience, unthinking stupidity, brutish callousness, wanton destruction, and irresponsible murder.
Alexander Berkman
War
Obedience
Destruction
Stupidity
Blind Obedience
Blind
Irresponsible
Wanton
Means
War paralyzes your courage and deadens the spirit of true manhood.
Alexander Berkman
War
Courage
Spirit
True
Manhood
Your
All religions have based morality on obedience, that is to say, on voluntary slavery. That is why they have always been more pernicious than any political organization. For the latter makes use of violence, the former - of the corruption of the will.
Alexander Herzen
Obedience
Corruption
Political
Organization
Will
Say
Latter
All Religions
Religions
Morality
More
Voluntary
Makes
Always
Pernicious
Been
Than
Any
Former
Use
Based
Why
Violence
Slavery
No one is to blame. It is neither their fault nor ours. It is the misfortune of being born when a whole world is dying.
Alexander Herzen
Blame
World
Fault
Ours
Neither
Born
Misfortune
No-One
Nor
Being
Dying
Whole
Would it be possible to stand still on one spot more majestically - while simulating a triumphant march forward - than it is done by the two English Houses of Parliament?
Alexander Herzen
Possible
Would
Triumphant
More
Parliament
Houses
Spot
Still
Than
Done
While
Stand
English
Forward
March
Two
Science, which cuts its way through the muddy pond of daily life without mingling with it, casts its wealth to right and left, but the puny boatmen do not know how to fish for it.
Alexander Herzen
Life
Daily
Science
Wealth
Way
Mingling
Puny
Casts
Through
Know
Without
How
Fish
Left
Which
Pond
Cuts
Muddy
Daily Life
Right
Everything in Italy that is particularly elegant and grand borders upon insanity and absurdity or at least is reminiscent of childhood.
Alexander Herzen
Insanity
Everything
Borders
Absurdity
Reminiscent
Particularly
Least
Italy
Childhood
Grand
Elegant
If nations always moved from one set of furnished rooms to another - and always into a better set - things might be easier, but the trouble is that there is no one to prepare the new rooms. The future is worse than the ocean - there is nothing there.
Alexander Herzen
Future
Better
Trouble
Ocean
Nothing
Furnished
Worse
Easier
No-One
New
Another
Always
Than
Moved
Nations
Might
Rooms
Prepare
Things
Set
I don't believe in democracy by bayonet.
Alexander Lebedev
Democracy
Believe
Bayonet
I am not aspiring to be a senior bureaucrat. It would limit my freedom.
Alexander Lebedev
Freedom
Would
Limit
Am
Bureaucrat
Senior
Aspiring
I never planned to be rich, frankly speaking. I was more interested in being free, and doing things. And money helps. But otherwise I was never that interested in it.
Alexander Lebedev
Money
Free
Rich
Otherwise
Frankly
More
Never
Doing
Being
Interested
Planned
Speaking
Helps
Things
You can't do business without money, of course, because that's how it works, but I'm not in business only for money.
Alexander Mamut
You
Business
Money
Only
Course
Because
Without
How
Works
I think that writing texts, publishing texts, selling texts in a physical book store is one of the important tools for breeding this new generation.
Alexander Mamut
Generation
Book
Writing
Important
Think
Book Store
Tools
Physical
New
New Generation
Texts
Selling
Store
Breeding
Publishing
I am married and happy. My only wish is that nothing will change.
Alexander Pushkin
Change
Happy
Will
Wish
Nothing
Married
Only
Am
Studying is something I really love doing, and I just hope to have enough money for tuition.
Alexandra Kosteniuk
Love
Hope
Money
Enough
Enough Money
Something
Studying
Doing
Just
Tuition
Really
A woman can beat any man; it's difficult to imagine another kind of sport where a woman can beat a man. That's why I like chess.
Alexandra Kosteniuk
Man
Woman
Difficult
Kind
Beat
Like
Sport
Another
Chess
Any
Where
Why
Imagine
I have never been a professional model; I have had some modeling sessions.
Alexandra Kosteniuk
Some
Never
Had
Been
Model
Modeling
Professional
It's now possible to play and take lessons from any place of the world. The concept of physical distance doesn't exist in the online world, and that is so cool!
Alexandra Kosteniuk
World
Distance
Possible
Physical
Online
Take
Concept
Exist
Any
Place
Cool
Lessons
Now
Play
It's a shame to be the face of chess and to play chess badly.
Alexandra Kosteniuk
Face
Shame
Badly
Chess
Play
My wealth is reflected in the price of Severstal, and the number of shares I have in my possession doesn't have any impact on the company.
Alexei Mordashov
Wealth
Possession
Impact
Price
Shares
Reflected
Any
Company
Number
It is a very big exaggeration to say I am a friend of Mr. Putin.
Alexei Mordashov
Exaggeration
Big
Say
Putin
Am
Friend
Very
Regarding our links with the Russian government, Severstal is a private company with no government participation. We are answerable to our shareholders.
Alexei Mordashov
Government
Our
Russian
Shareholders
Participation
Answerable
Private
Links
Regarding
Company
In a literal sense, even a private company, of course, cannot do everything that it wants without some discussion with government. As a good corporate citizen, Severstal discussed the idea of a merger with Arcelor with the Russian government.
Alexei Mordashov
Government
Good
Citizen
Sense
Corporate
Everything
Some
Russian
Idea
Merger
Course
Without
Private
Discussed
Discussion
Literal
Wants
Cannot
Company
Even
When we put $4 billion into the U.S. economy, they were OK with this. When we preserved jobs in Dearborn, or preserved jobs in Columbus, or preserved jobs in Pennsylvania, everyone was happy.
Alexei Mordashov
Happy
Preserved
Everyone
OK
Jobs
Pennsylvania
Put
Columbus
Economy
Were
Billion
We appreciate size, but only if it is robust growth. Just to be big is not a target.
Alexei Mordashov
Big
Only
Robust
Target
Just
Size
Growth
Appreciate
People were expecting Rouge to go bankrupt, so there was a lot of anxiety. The corporate culture problem was even worse than in Russia. And at the same time, the work rules were more difficult.
Alexei Mordashov
Work
Time
Culture
People
Anxiety
Problem
Difficult
Corporate
Worse
Rules
Russia
More
Go
Were
Lot
Than
Expecting
Same
Same Time
Bankrupt
Even
Rouge
Even Worse
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