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The ability to compromise is not a diplomatic politeness toward a partner but rather taking into account and respecting your partner's legitimate interests. ↗

— Vladimir Putin

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We shall fight against them, throw them in prisons and destroy them. ↗

— Vladimir Putin

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Without money honor is merely a disease. ↗

— Jean Racine

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I see that not everyone in the West has understood that the Soviet Union has disappeared from the political map of the world and that a new country has emerged with new humanist and ideological principles at the foundation of its existence. ↗

— Vladimir Putin

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Russia needs a strong state power and must have it. But I am not calling for totalitarianism. ↗

— Vladimir Putin

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Russia will not soon become, if it ever becomes, a second copy of the United States or England - where liberal value have deep historic roots. ↗

— Vladimir Putin

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To pay more is the easy way. In fact, the solution possibilities to the problem are many. ↗

— Vladimir Putin

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John Brown's effort was peculiar. It was not a slave insurrection. ↗

— George Haven Putnam

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When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield. ↗

— Quintilian

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An enthusiast broods over the oppression of a people till he fancies himself commissioned by Heaven to liberate them. He ventures the attempt, which ends in little else than his own execution. ↗

— George Haven Putnam

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