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

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• All reactionaries are paper tigers.

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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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• Women hold up half the sky.

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

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• War can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun.

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• To read too many books is harmful.

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

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• Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.

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• Letting a hundred flowers blossom and a hundred schools of thought contend is the policy for promoting the progress of the arts and the sciences and a flourishing culture in our land.

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• Let a hundred flowers bloom.

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

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• Classes struggle, some classes triumph, others are eliminated. Such is history; such is the history of civilization for thousands of years.

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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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• My advice to the women of America is to raise more hell and fewer dahlias

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Mao Zedong (57)

Birth:	26th December, 1893
Death:	9th September, 1976
Nationality:	Chinese
Profession:	Librarian, Politician

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Mao Zedong was a Chinese Communist revolutionary and the founding father of the People's Republic of China, which he governed as Chairman of the Communist Party of China from its establishment in 1949 until his death in 1976. His Marxist-Leninist theories, military strategies and political policies are collectively known as Maoism or Mao Zedong Thought.

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