33 Quotes About Russians

  • Author Paul Ekman
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    Вне зависимости от того, собираются русские плутовать (относительно ядерного оружия) или нет, они всегда пытаются создать впечатление полной честности. Ведь и честный человек и лжец всегда ответят утвердительно на вопрос, собираются ли они говорить правду.

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  • Author John Curtis Perry
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    The Turks, themselves defeated in the Great War, treated the Russians surprisingly well and smiled acceptingly when their uninvited guests would rest on the stairs of mosques. They would even allow the Russians to enter the Hagia Sophia, which before the Ottoman conquest of 1453 had been the major cathedral of Eastern Christianity. Greeks and Armenians, old foes of the Turks, were still banned from this enormous mosque.

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  • Author Charles Simic
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    Are Russian cannibals worse than the English? Of course. The English eat only the feet, the Russians the soul. "The soul is a mirage," I told Anna Alexandrovna, but she went on eating mine anyway.

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  • Author Neal Stephenson
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    So in order to accommodate the Pioneers who would begin arriving in a few weeks, the Arkitects sent up Scouts. The qualifications for being a Scout seemed to be a shocking level of physical endurance, a complete disregard for mortal danger, and some knowledge of how to exist in a space suit. All of them were Russians.

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  • Author Ebulfez Elchibey
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    Remember we Azeris had barely a single general. But I was the one who got the Russian army out of our country.Remember, I talked in Turkish through a translator to Yeltsin, not in Russian, something that was never done before. Yeltsin once hit his spoon on Akayev's head, but I refused to let them do such things to me.

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