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I have always defended my convictions and what I believed to be the truth. Mikhail Khodorkovsky

Truth Convictions Always Believed Defended

I established my bank in 1988. Mikhail Khodorkovsky

Bank Established

I knew President Yeltsin well. He would never have tolerated government officials demonstratively showing off the millions they acquired through corruption, the way it's done today. Mikhail Khodorkovsky

Today Government Corruption President Way Would Through Never He Knew Well Government Officials Off Officials Done Acquired Tolerated Showing Millions

My father was a construction engineer, and my mother was a production engineer. Mikhail Khodorkovsky

Construction Mother Engineer Father Production

I have to travel a lot, but relaxation to me is when I am at home. Mikhail Khodorkovsky

Home Me Travel Relaxation Am Lot

I like everything to be dependable, heavy, English furniture. Mikhail Khodorkovsky

Everything Furniture Like Dependable Heavy English

Many a calm river begins as a turbulent waterfall, yet none hurtles and foams all the way to the sea. Mikhail Lermontov

Calm Waterfall Way River None Begins Turbulent Sea Many

I cannot do politics under someone else's control. Mikhail Prokhorov

Politics Control Else Someone Cannot

I have no plans to have any other home than Moscow. However, I love to travel, and I'm very comfortable in New York. In many ways, it reminds me of Moscow in its energy and drive. Mikhail Prokhorov

The government in Russia does not tell me what to do with my assets. Mikhail Prokhorov

Government Me Tell Russia Does Assets

One might say that the novel is the genre that most predisposes one to a profound insight into the tremendous life around us, instead of putting forward one's own tiny ego as the centre of the universe. Mikhail Sholokhov

Life Ego Own Universe Tremendous Say Insight Instead Putting Most Genre Around Tiny Centre Might Us Forward Novel Profound

In my opinion, the true pioneers are those artists who make manifest in their works the new content, the determining characteristics of life in our time. Mikhail Sholokhov

Life Time Our Those Our Time Characteristics Determining True New Make Content Opinion Pioneers Artists In My Opinion Manifest Who Works

Thanks to nanny, I've got a deep understanding of Russian tales. Modest Mussorgsky

Understanding Thanks Russian Tales Nanny Got Deep

Law is a formless mass of isolated decisions. Morris Raphael Cohen

Law Mass Isolated Decisions

Let philosophy resolutely aim to be as scientific as possible, but let her not forget her strong kinship with literature. Morris Raphael Cohen

Strong Aim Philosophy Possible Kinship Scientific Forget Literature Her Resolutely

The picture which the philosopher draws of the world is surely not one in which every stroke is necessitated by pure logic. Morris Raphael Cohen

World Pure Picture Every Philosopher Draws Stroke Logic Surely Which

In thus pointing out certain respects in which philosophy resembles literature more than science, I do not mean, of course, to imply that it would be well for philosophy if it ceased to aim at scientific rigor. Morris Raphael Cohen

You know creators, composers, need a palette for life, a color for life. Mstislav Rostropovich

Life You Composers Color Know Creators Palette Need

I never studied, but I had the best teachers. Mstislav Rostropovich

Best Never Had Studied Teachers

I know that after my letter there will be undoubtedly an 'opinion' about me, but I am not afraid of it. I openly say what I think. Talent, of which we are proud, must not be submitted to the assaults of the past. Mstislav Rostropovich

Me Will Past Think Say Must About Talent Openly Know Opinion Proud Am Undoubtedly Submitted Afraid After Which Letter

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