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Fortunes are made, and disappear, over the lifetime of a single generation. Today, a person in essence takes his wealth from society just for the duration of his or her lifetime. The next generation has to create it anew.

- Mikhail Khodorkovsky

Wealth, Generation, Over, Anew

I like everything to be dependable, heavy, English furniture.

- Mikhail Khodorkovsky

Furniture, English, Like, Dependable

I have always defended my convictions and what I believed to be the truth.

- Mikhail Khodorkovsky

Truth, Always, Defended, Convictions

As for the company, I did all I could from the very outset of this affair to remove Yukos and its employees from danger.

- Mikhail Khodorkovsky

Could, Very, Outset, Affair

Today, a skilled manager makes more than the owner. And owners fight each other to get the skilled managers.

- Mikhail Khodorkovsky

Manager, Other, Owner, Managers

This demonstration of power, indifferent to the law, is highly dangerous.

- Mikhail Khodorkovsky

Law, Dangerous, Indifferent, Highly

I knew President Yeltsin well. He would never have tolerated government officials demonstratively showing off the millions they acquired through corruption, the way it's done today.

- Mikhail Khodorkovsky

Through, Knew, Tolerated, Officials

What's important to me now is to uphold my good name and achieve a fair court decision - the past cannot be recovered anyway.

- Mikhail Khodorkovsky

Decision, Past, Achieve, Uphold

Large companies cannot finance political parties as their shareholders and employees have different political views.

- Mikhail Khodorkovsky

Large, Shareholders, Employees

My father was a construction engineer, and my mother was a production engineer.

- Mikhail Khodorkovsky

Mother, Father, Production, Construction

The right to private property meant at the same time the right and duty to be personally concerned about your own well-being, to be personally concerned about your family's income, to be personally concerned about your future. This is hard work.

- Mikhail Khodorkovsky

Well-Being, Income, Meant, Duty

I'm not an ordinary prisoner.

- Mikhail Khodorkovsky

Prisoner, Ordinary

My parents were Muscovites. They worked at the Kaliber factory.

- Mikhail Khodorkovsky

Parents, Worked, Were, Factory

To admit guilt for nonexistent crimes is unacceptable to me.

- Mikhail Khodorkovsky

Admit, Guilt, Crimes, Unacceptable

A left turn in the fate of Russia is as necessary as it is inevitable.

- Mikhail Khodorkovsky

Fate, Necessary, Inevitable, Russia

I have to travel a lot, but relaxation to me is when I am at home.

- Mikhail Khodorkovsky

I Am, Me, Lot, Relaxation

I established my bank in 1988.

- Mikhail Khodorkovsky

Bank, Established

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