"There are numerous bugbears in the profession of a politician. First, ordinary life suffers. Second, there are many temptations to ruin you and those around you. And I suppose third, and this is rarely discussed, people at the top generally have no friends."

Friendship, Life, People, First, Friends

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"There are numerous bugbears in the profession of a politician. First, ordinary life suffers. Second, there are many temptations to ruin you and those around you. And I suppose third, and this is rarely discussed, people at the top generally have no friends."

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"We don't appreciate what we have until it's gone. Freedom is like that. It's like air. When you have it, you don't notice it."

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"We all have an equal interest in stability and security throughout Europe. The years the OSCE has existed, and particularly this year, have given rise to great expectations and at the same time to powerful disappointments."

Time, Disappointments, Europe, Expectations

"Thousands of mercenaries, who have trained in camps on the territory of Chechnya as well as come in from abroad, are actually preparing to impose extremist ideas on the whole world."

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"There were no strategic mistakes that could affect Russia's history and it further development. No, there were no such mistakes. Tactical errors were made in some less significant options, problems and so on. But, on the whole, Russia embarked on a correct path and it changed."

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"One could see that what you are writing was that today's meeting with President Bill Clinton was going to be a disaster. Now, for the first time, I can tell you that you are a disaster."

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"Let's not talk about Communism. Communism was just and idea, just pie in the sky."

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"It is especially important to encourage unorthodox thinking when the situation is critical: At such moments every new word and fresh thought is more precious than gold. Indeed, people must not be deprived of the right to think their own thoughts."

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"I would like to stress here that a lasting peace in the Chechen republic and so-called peace talks with the bandits are not the same thing, and I would ask everyone to make no mistake about that."

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"I understand that it's hard for everyone, but one cannot give in to emotions... we'll have to draw lessons from the current crisis and now we'll have to work on overcoming it."

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"Europe has found itself confronted with fresh challenges - challenges of a global character, the nature of which is directly connected with changes in the international climate and the difficulties of seeking new models for co-operation."

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"Men are only as great as they are kind."

Elbert Hubbard, American Writer

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"Often we can help each other most by leaving each other alone; at other times we need the hand-grasp and the word of cheer."

Elbert Hubbard, American Writer

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"Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth."

Herman Melville, American Novelist

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"Pity may represent little more than the impersonal concern which prompts the mailing of a check, but true sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of one's soul."

Martin Luther King, Jr., American Leader

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"I own that I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive."

Thomas Jefferson, American President

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"A friend to all is a friend to none."

Aristotle, Greek Philosopher

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"If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world."

Blaise Pascal, French Philosopher

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"The only way to have a friend is to be one."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

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"Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty."

Stephen King, American Author

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"Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than participate in it."

Warren Buffett, American Businessman

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