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VLADIMIR LENIN Give us the child for 8 years and it will be a Bolshevik forever.
VLADIMIR LENIN It is true that liberty is precious; so precious that it must be carefully rationed.
VLADIMIR LENIN The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation.
VLADIMIR LENIN The matter of international relations is very subtle and exquisite.
VLADIMIR ZHIRINOVSKY Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.
VLADIMIR LENIN Perfection itself is imperfection.
VLADIMIR HOROWITZ And really, the reason we think of death in celestial terms is that the visible firmament, especiall...
VLADIMIR NABOKOV Capitalists are no more capable of self-sacrifice than a man is capable of lifting himself up by his...
VLADIMIR LENIN No gray hairs streak my soul, no grandfatherly fondness there! I shake the world with the might of m...
VLADIMIR MAYAKOVSKY Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one.
VLADIMIR NABOKOV The love boat has crashed against the everyday.
VLADIMIR MAYAKOVSKY