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You must have your heart on fire and your brain on ice.
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You cannot make a revolution in white gloves.
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Man’s consciousness not only reflects the objective world, but creates it.
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Learning is never done without errors and defeat.
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There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.
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Medicine is the keystone of the arch of socialism.
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The most important thing in illness is never to lose heart.
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Sometimes quantity has a quality all its own.
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Bah, tombstones are only good for pigeons to sit on
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It is, of course, much easier to shout, abuse, and howl than to attempt to relate, to explain.
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We are not shooting enough professors.
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Authority poisons everybody who takes authority on himself.
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The progressive historical role of capitalism may be summed up in two brief propositions: increase in the productive forces of social labour, and the socialisation of that labour. But both these facts manifest themselves in extremely diverse processes in different branches of the national economy.
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Communism is Soviet power plus the electrification of the whole country.
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The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation.
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I don't care what becomes of Russia. To hell with it. All this is only the road to a World Revolution.
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The bourgeoisie incites the workers of one nation against those of another in the endeavour to keep them disunited.
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Only struggle educates the exploited class. Only struggle discloses to it the magnitude of its own power, widens its horizon, enhances its abilities, clarifies its mind, forges its will.
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False rhetoric and false boastfulness spell moral ruin and lead unfailingly to political extinction.
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Socialists cannot achieve their great aim without fighting against all oppression of nations.
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Comrades! The kulak uprising in your five districts must be crushed without pity. You must make example of these people. (1) Hang (I mean hang publicly, so that people see it) at least 100 kulaks, rich bastards, and known bloodsuckers. (2) Publish their names. (3) Seize all their grain. (4) Single out the hostages per my instructions in yesterday's telegram. Do all this so that for miles around people see it all, understand it, tremble, and tell themselves that we are killing the bloodthirsty kulaks and that we will continue to do so ...Find tougher people.
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Peace, Land, and Bread! All power to the Soviet!
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For the complete extinction of the state, complete Communism is necessary.
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When it comes to hang the capitalists they will compete with each other to sell us the rope at a lower price.