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.
MAO ZEDONGThe 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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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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Classes struggle, some classes triumph, others are eliminated.
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Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
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Swollen in head, weak in legs, sharp in tongue but empty in belly.
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All reactionaries are paper tigers.
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Passivity is fatal to us. Our goal is to make the enemy passive.
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We think too small, like the frog at the bottom of the well.
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The differences between friends cannot but reinforce their friendship.
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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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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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The guerrilla must move amongst the people as a fish swims in the sea.
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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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In waking a tiger, use a long stick.
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Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.
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I have witnessed the tremendous energy of the masses.
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All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.
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Political work is the life-blood of all economic work.
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Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.
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Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy.
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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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We shall heal our wounds, collect our dead and continue fighting.
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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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There is a serious tendency toward capitalism among the well-to-do peasants.
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I voted for you during your last election.
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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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Women hold up half the sky.
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