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Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.

Karl Marx

Men make their own history, but they do not make it as they please; they do not make it under self-selected circumstances, but under circumstances existing already, given and transmitted from the past.
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Circumstance Existence History Men Past Please Transmit
Surround yourself with people who make you happy.
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Happiness One Liner People Positive Surround Yourself
You must be aware that the reward for labour, and quantity of labour, are quite disparate things.
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Aware Disparate Labour Quantity Quite Reward
Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form.
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Existence Reason
Be careful to trust a person who does not like wine.
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Alcohol Care Humour Person Trust Wine
Religion is the opium of the masses.
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Mass One Liner Opium Religion
It is not the consciousness of men that determines their being, but, on the contrary, their social being that determines their consciousness.
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Condition Conscious Contray Determination Social
As exchange-values, all commodities are merely definite quantities of congealed labour-time.
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Commodity exchange Labour Quantity Time Value
Capital is dead labour, which, vampire like, lives only by sucking living labour, and lives the more, the more labour it sucks.
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Capital Dead Labour Live Suck Vampire
Political power, properly so called, is merely the organised power of one class for oppressing another.
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Class Oppress Politics Power
Man makes his own history, but he does not make it out of the whole cloth; he does not make it out of conditions chosen by himself, but out of such as he finds close at hand.
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Clothes Condition Himself History Man Politics
Money is the alienated essence of man’s labor and life; and this alien essence dominates him as he worships it.
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Dominate Essence Himself Labour Life Man Money Worship
Christ represents originally: 1) men before God; 2) God for men; 3) men to man.
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God Man Men Original
The increase in value of the world of things is directly proportional to the decrease in value of the human world.
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Human Proportional Valu World
Money is the universal, self-constituted value of all things.
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Money Universe Value
The demand to give up the illusions about its condition is the demand to give up a condition that needs illusions.
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Condition Demand Illusion Need

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