If One Is A Professional

Patriotism Means Unqualified And Unwavering Love For The Nation, Which Implies Not Uncritical Eagerness To Serve, Not Support For Unjust Claims, But Frank Assessment Of Its Vices And Sins, And Penitence For Them.

Still, Everybody Wants To Eat.

We Are All Human, And Our Senses Are Quicker To Prompt Us Than Our Reason. Every Man Gives Off A Scent, And That Scent Tells You How To Act Before Your Head Does.

Own Only What You Can Always Carry With You: Know Languages, Know Countries, Know People. Let Your Memory Be Your Travel Bag. Use Your Memory! Use Your Memory! It Is Those Bitter Seeds Alone Which Might Sprout And Grow Someday. Look Around You - There Are People Around You. Maybe You Will Remember One Of Them All Your Life And Later Eat Your Heart Out Because You Didn't Make Use Of The Opportunity To Ask Him Questions. And The Less You Talk, The More You'll Hear.

An Opposition Is Necessary And Desirable For The Healthy Development Of Any Country. You Can Scarcely Find Anyone In Opposition, Except For The Communists, Just Like In Yeltsin's Times. It Is Regrettable That There Is Still No Constructive, Clear And Large-scale Opposition In Russia. The Growth And Development Of An Opposition, As Well As The Maturing Of Other Democratic Institutions, Will Take More Time And Experience.