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On birthdays I avoid taking hasty or impulsive measures.

Fidel Castro

Quality of life lies in knowledge, in culture. Values are what constitute true quality of life, the supreme quality of life, even above food, shelter and clothing.
FIDEL CASTRO

Clothing Culture Food Knowledge Life
I am not a communist and neither is the revolutionary movement.
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Communist Moments Myself Revolution
I am someone who’s been in politics for 43 years and I know what I’m doing and what I should do. Have no doubt that I know how to tell the truth and to do so elegantly.
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Doubt Elegant Myself Politics Truth
We do not deny the possibility of peaceful political transition, but we are still awaiting the first case.
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Peace Possible Transition
I was a man who was lucky enough to have discovered a political theory, a man who was caught up in the whirlpool of Cuba’s political crisis…; discovering Marxism…was like finding a map in the forest.
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Discover Enough Finding Man Myself Politics Theory
So these Red Sox, are they a Communist organization?
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Communalism Organizatiom
How can we help President Obama?
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Help President
A revolution is not a bed of roses. A revolution is a struggle between the future and the past.
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Bed Past Revolution Rose Struggle
It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and a plan of action.
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Faith Inspirational Planning Small Yourself
Capitalism has neither the capacity, nor the morality, nor the ethics to solve the problems of poverty.
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Capacity Capital Moral Poverty Problem Solve
Nowhere in the world, in no act of genocide, in no war, are so many people killed per minute, per hour and per day as those who are killed by hunger and poverty on our planet.
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Hungry Kill People Planet Poverty War World
There is nothing that compares to the Holocaust.
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Compare Tragedy
The Jews have lived an existence that is much harder than ours. There is nothing that compares to the Holocaust.
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Compare Existence Live Ourselves
I am not a communist and neither is the revolutionary movement, but we do not have to say that we are anticommunists just to fawn on foreign powers.
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Communalism Foreign Myself Power
The first thing dictators do is finish free press, to establish censorship. There is no doubt that a free press is the first enemy of dictatorship.
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Doubt Enemy Establishment Freedom Media
I do not conceive of any manifestation of culture, of science, of art, as purposes in themselves. I think the purpose of science and culture is man.
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Culture Man Manifestation Science
If surviving assassination attempts were an Olympic event, I would win the gold medal.
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Assassination Gold Medal Myself Survive
Democracy’s my idea. I do not agree with communists, my acts prove. Free press in Cuba – free ideas, freedom religion belief.
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Agreement Belief Communalism Democracy Freedom Ideas Religion
We need a Nuremberg to put on trial the economic order that they have imposed on us, that every three years kills more men, women and children by hunger and preventable or curable diseases than the death toll in six years of the second world war.
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Economics Hungry Kill Man Trial War
The Alliance for Progress is an alliance between one millionaire and many beggars.
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Beggar Oneself Progress
I have not seen the Himalayas. But I have seen Sheikh Mujib. In personality and in courage, this man is the Himalayas. I have thus had the experience of witnessing the Himalayas.
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Courage Experience Man Myself Personality See
Good athletes do not know what tiredness is. They do not know what discouragement is. Good athletes only know what victory is.
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Athlete Discourage Goodness Inspirational Known Sports Tired Victory
This country is heaven, in the spiritual sense of the word. And I say, we prefer to die in heaven than survive in hell.
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Country Heaven Hell Sense Spiritual Survive
I never perceived a contradiction in the political revolutionary field between the ideas I maintained and the idea of that symbol, that extraordinary figure who had been so familiar to me since I began to reason.
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Familiar Ideas Myself Politics Reason Revolution Symbol
I’ve always considered Christ to be one of the greatest revolutionaries in the history of humanity.
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Greatness History Humanity Myself Revolution
I can assure you that my first and foremost interest is my country. This is not a personal matter. We are not people driven by a wish to be in the government since it is for us the least attractive work, even though we are politicians.
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Assurance Drive Government Interest Myself Personal Politics
A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.
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Death Future Past Revolution Struggle

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