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"Where do correct ideas come from? Do they drop from the skies? No. They come from social practice, and from it alone; they come from three kinds of social practice, the struggle for production, the class struggle and scientific experiment."
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Source: Zedong Mao (1972). “Quotations from Chairman Mao Tsetung”, p.206, China Books
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