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If one cannot catch a bird of paradise, better take a wet hen. - N

If one cannot catch a bird of paradise, better take a wet hen. – Nikita Khrushchev

Other quotes by Nikita Khrushchev

Support by United States rulers is rather in the nature of the support that the rope gives to a hanged man. – Nikita Khrushchev

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Nature
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Nikita Khrushchev
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When all the world is socialist, Switzerland will have to remain capitalist, so that it can tell us the price of everything. – Nikita Khrushchev

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Capitalism
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Other Quotes from
Compromise
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Gather in your resources, rally all your faculties, marshal all your energies, focus all your capacities upon mastery of at least one field of endeavor. – John Haggai

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Compromise

If you are not very clever, you should be conciliatory. – Benjamin Disraeli

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Compromise

From the beginning of our history the country has been afflicted with compromise. It is by compromise that human rights have been ;abandoned. – Charles Sumner

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Compromise

Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean that half a loaf ;is better than a whole loaf. – G. K. Chesterton

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Compromise

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I was taught to confront things you cant avoid. Death is one of those things. To live in a society where youre trying not to look at it is stupid because looking at death throws us back into life with more vigour and energy. The fact that flowers dont last for ever makes them beautiful. – Damien Hirst

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For my part, I wish all guns with their belongings and everything could be sent to hell, which is the proper place for their exhibition and use. – Alfred Nobel

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