On this foundation it is possible to accomplish any task whatsoever.
MAO ZEDONGPolitics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.
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Despise the enemy strategically, but take him seriously tactically.
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Let a hundred flowers bloom, let a hundred schools of thought contend.
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The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.
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War can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun.
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I have witnessed the tremendous energy of the masses.
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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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Passivity is fatal to us. Our goal is to make the enemy passive.
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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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Weapons are an important factor in war, but not the decisive one; it is man and not materials that counts.
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Women hold up half the sky.
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Let a hundred flowers bloom.
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Genuine equality between the sexes can only be realized in the process of the socialist transformation of society as a whole.
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Learn from the masses, and then teach them.
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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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Such is history; such is the history of civilization for thousands of years.
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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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Letting a hundred flowers blossom and a hundred schools of thought contend is the policy for promoting the progress of the arts and the sciences and a flourishing culture in our land.
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If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution.
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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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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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The guerrilla must move amongst the people as a fish swims in the sea.
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We think too small, like the frog at the bottom of the well.
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People like me sound like a lot of big cannons.
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Enable every woman who can work to take her place on the labour front, under the principle of equal pay for equal work.
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Investigation may be likened to the long months of pregnancy, and solving a problem to the day of birth. To investigate a problem is, indeed, to solve it.
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