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 ZEDONGIn 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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An army without culture is a dull-witted army, and a dull-witted army cannot defeat the enemy.
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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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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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Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.
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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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I have witnessed the tremendous energy of the masses.
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To read too many books is harmful.
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On this foundation it is possible to accomplish any task whatsoever.
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Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.
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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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There is a serious tendency toward capitalism among the well-to-do peasants.
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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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Weapons are an important factor in war, but not the decisive one; it is man and not materials that counts.
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