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The usages and methods of warfare are thus determined by changing circumstances and, therefore, they themselves can in nowise be eternal.

Leon Trotsky

The revenge of history is more powerful than the revenge of the most powerful General Secretary.
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History Powerful Revenge Secretary
I emphasized the significance of revolutionary strategy.
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Revolution Significance Strategy
Our planet is being turned into a filthy and evil-smelling imperialist barrack.
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Ourselves Planet Pollution
Is it possible to fulfill this task, is it possible to achieve the definite victory of Socialism in one country without the combined efforts of the proletarians of several advanced countries? No, it is impossible.
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Country Fulfill Impossible Possible Task
Our differences with [Joseph] Stalin are entirely of a strategical character.
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Character Difference Ourselves
Dialectical thought is related to vulgar thinking in the same way that a motion picture is related to a still photograph. The motion picture does not outlaw the still photograph but combines a series of them according to the laws of motion.
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Law Motion Photograph Relate Thinking
Tell me anyway–Maybe I can find the truth by comparing the lies.
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Compare Finding Lying Truth
Learning carries within itself certain dangers because out of necessity one has to learn from one’s enemies.
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Carry Dangerous Enemy Learning
Where the sole employer is the state, [opposition] means death by slow starvation.
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Death Employee Starve
In a serious struggle there is no worse cruelty than to be magnanimous at an inopportune time.
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Cruelty Serious Struggle Time Worst
Old age is the most unexpected of all things that happen to a man.
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Age Expectation Man Old
You may not be interested in strategy, but strategy is interested in you.
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Interest Motivational Strategy Yourself
Workers – men and women – of all countries, place yourselves under the banner of the Fourth International. It is the banner of your approaching victory!
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Man Place Victory Woman Work
When one runs with the wolves, one must howl with the pack.
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Run Togetherness Wolf
If we had more time for discussion we should probably have made a great many more mistakes.
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Discussion Greatness Mistake Time
Nowhere else did repressions, purges, suppressions, and all other kinds of bureaucratic hooliganism in general acquire such horrifying scope as in Ukraine, in the struggle against powerful forces concealed in the Ukrainian masses that desired more freedom and independence.
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Desire Force Freedom Government Independence Powerful Repression Struggle

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