"Today's difference between Russia and the United States is that in Russia everybody takes everybody else for a spy, and in the United States everybody takes everybody else for a criminal."

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"Today's difference between Russia and the United States is that in Russia everybody takes everybody else for a spy, and in the United States everybody takes everybody else for a criminal."

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"A story has been thought through to the end when it has taken the worst possible turn."

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"A state always calls itself fatherland when it is ready for murder."

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"A major power can afford a military debacle only when it looks like a political victory."

Power, Victory, Military

"The only remedy against hunger is reasonable birth control."

Control, Birthcontrol, Hunger

"Before anything else, we need a new age of Enlightenment. Our present political systems must relinquish their claims on truth, justice and freedom and have to replace them with the search for truth, justice, freedom and reason."

Age, Truth, Freedom, Justice

"The evolution of humans can not only be seen as the grand total of their wars; it is also defined by the evolution of the human mind and the development of the human consciousness."

Development, Consciousness, Evolution, Mind

"Today's Communism can survive only if it abandons the myth of an infallible party, if it continues to think, and if it becomes democratic."

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"This inhuman world has to become more humane. But how?"

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"There is a moment when nothing can be wiped out and left behind any more, when there is only reality and reality is horrifying."

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"There are risks which are not acceptable: the destruction of humanity is one of them."

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"The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at and repair."

Douglas Adams, English Writer

Difference, Wrong

"The difference is slight, to the influence of an author, whether he is read by 500 readers, or by five hundred thousand; if he can select the 500, he reaches the five hundred thousand."

Brooks Adams, American Historian

Difference, Influence

"The difference is slight, to the influence of an author, whether he is read by five hundred readers, or by five hundred thousand; if he can select the five hundred, he reaches the five hundred thousand."

Henry B. Adams, American Historian

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"When a system is considered in two different states, the difference in volume or in any other property, between the two states, depends solely upon those states themselves and not upon the manner in which the system may pass from one state to the other."

Rudolf Arnheim, German Artist

Difference, May, Property, State

"The big difference is the size of the crew and the flexibility of shooting because of the size. I mean, it's crazy. So you can't improvise, you cannot suddenly do something that comes to mind, whereas in a small production you have much more flexibility."

Bille August, Danish Director

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"We don't have a monopoly. We have market share. There's a difference."

Steve Ballmer, American Businessman

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"The only difference between a good shot and a bad shot is if it goes in or not."

Charles Barkley, American Athlete

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"It's not what you play but what you leave out that makes the difference."

John Barrow, American Politician

Difference, Play

"The difference between the denominational system and the public school system is all the difference between bolstering them up on the one hand and letting them alone of the other."

Edmund Barton, Australian Politician

Difference, Public, School

"I wasn't as fit as I would of liked to have been, going to the World Cup, but I'm not sure what difference that made."

David Beckham, English Athlete

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