"Man truly achieves his full human condition when he produces without being compelled by the physical necessity of selling himself as a commodity."
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"I now know, by an almost fatalistic conformity with the facts, that my destiny is to travel."
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"Chess is an effective means to educate and train the human intellect."
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"We are overcome by anguish at this illogical moment of humanity."
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"The problem of peaceful transition to socialism, we do not discuss it as a theoretical question. But in America it is very difficult, and it is nearly impossible. That is why specifically in America we say that the road to the liberation of peoples, which will be the road of socialism will go through bullets in almost all countries."
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"We must do away with all newspapers. A revolution cannot be accomplished with freedom of the press."
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"I will fight with all the weapons within my reach rather than let myself be nailed to a cross or whatever."
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"...because it is the very nature of Imperialism to turn humans into beasts."
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"Americans are given the sole option of electing their jailer for four years and sometimes do him the honour of re-electing him."
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"How is it possible to feel nostalgia for a world I never knew?"
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"Hatred as an element of the struggle; a relentless hatred of the enemy, impelling us over and beyond the natural limitations that man is heir to and transforming him into an effective, violent, selective and cold killing machine. Our soldiers must be thus; a people without hatred cannot vanquish a brutal enemy."
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"The U.S. is the great enemy of mankind! Against those hyenas there is no option but extermination! If the nuclear missiles had remained (in Cuba) we would have fired them against the heart of the U.S. including New York City!"
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"One has to grow hard but without ever losing tenderness."
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"We travel just to travel."
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"A smoke in times of rest is a great companion to the solitary soldier."
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"In a revolution one wins or dies, if it is a real one"
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"The final hour of colonialism has struck, and millions of inhabitants of Africa, Asia and Latin America rise to meet a new life and demand their unrestricted right to self-determination."
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"What do we leave behind when we cross each frontier? Each moment seems split in two: melancholy for what was left behind and the excitement of entering a new land."
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"We must carry the war into every corner the enemy happens to carry it, to his home, to his centers of entertainment: a total war. It is necessary to prevent him from having a moment of peace, a quiet moment outside his barracks or even inside; we must attack him wherever he may be, make him feel like a cornered beast wherever he may move. Then his moral fiber shall begin to decline, but we shall notice how the signs of decadence begin to disappear."
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"We should not go to the [poor countries] and say: 'We come to ... teach you our science, to show you your errors.' ... We should go instead with an inquiring mind and a humble spirit to learn [from] these people."
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