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My response to Bernie Sanders' you know uh stories you know fairytales is that uh the failure of capitalism is still much better than the success of socialism.

— Garry Kasparov Interview with Bill Kristol (2016)

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The United States is a very different thing. It's a continent-spanning nation built from scratch by millions of immigrants from every part of the world on top of its native population.

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My nature is that I have to excite myself with a big challenge.

Everyone, at any age, has talents that aren't fully developed-even those who reach the top of their profession.

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We have to always look ahead enough moves to be well prepared, even for victory!

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Reforms are only institutional if they have a real effect on how people live.

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Call it democracy, or call it democratic socialism, but there must be a better distribution of wealth within this country for all God's children.

Martin Luther King Jr.

The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings. The inherent virtue of Socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.

Winston Churchill

In my opinion, nothing has contributed so much to the corruption of the original idea of socialism as the belief that Russia is a socialist country and that every act of its rulers must be excused, if not imitated.

George Orwell

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