If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution.
MAO ZEDONGPolitical work is the life-blood of all economic work.
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Let a hundred flowers bloom, let a hundred schools of thought contend.
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An army without culture is a dull-witted army, and a dull-witted army cannot defeat the enemy.
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If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself.
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In time of difficulties, we must not lose sight of our achievements.
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All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.
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Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.
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People like me sound like a lot of big cannons.
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The differences between friends cannot but reinforce their friendship.
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The cardinal responsibility of leadership is to identify the dominant contradiction at each point of the historical process and to work out a central line to resolve it.
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He thinks the sky is only as big as the top of the well. If he surfaced, he would have an entirely different view.
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Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy.
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I voted for you during your last election.
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On this foundation it is possible to accomplish any task whatsoever.
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Weapons are an important factor in war, but not the decisive one; it is man and not materials that counts.
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To read too many books is harmful.
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I have witnessed the tremendous energy of the masses.
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Swollen in head, weak in legs, sharp in tongue but empty in belly.
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In general, any form of exercise, if pursued continuously, will help train us in perseverance. Long-distance running is particularly good training in perseverance.
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The guerrilla must move amongst the people as a fish swims in the sea.
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In waking a tiger, use a long stick.
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Political work is the life-blood of all economic work.
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There is in fact no such thing as art for art’s sake, art that stands above classes, art that is detached from or independent of politics. Proletarian literature and art are part of the whole proletarian revolutionary cause.
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Women hold up half the sky.
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A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery.
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The atom bomb is a paper tiger which the United States reactionaries use to scare people. It looks terrible, but in fact it isn’t.
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Passivity is fatal to us. Our goal is to make the enemy passive.
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