"I would have preferred to have invented a machine that people could use and that would help farmers with their work - for example, a lawn-mower."
— Soviet Union

January 1, 1970

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Mikhail Kalashnikov, statement made in 2002, reported in Keeble McFarlane (February 4, 2006). "It seems we'll never beat swords into ploughshares", The Jamaica Observer.