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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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Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy.

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The differences between friends cannot but reinforce their friendship.

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Let a hundred flowers bloom, let a hundred schools of thought contend.

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Let a hundred flowers bloom.

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Women hold up half the sky.

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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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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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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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Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.

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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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Weapons are an important factor in war, but not the decisive one; it is man and not materials that counts.

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In time of difficulties, we must not lose sight of our achievements.

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If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself. If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.

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The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.

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Despise the enemy strategically, but take him seriously tactically.

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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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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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I have witnessed the tremendous energy of the masses. On this foundation it is possible to accomplish any task whatsoever.

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Swollen in head, weak in legs, sharp in tongue but empty in belly.

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