"The duty of every revolutionary is to make revolution"

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Source : Ignacio Ramonet, Fidel Castro (2008). “Fidel Castro: My Life: A Spoken Autobiography”, p.639, Simon and Schuster

Fidel Castro

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“The difficulty will be to keep her from learning too fast and too much. She is always sitting with her little nose burrowing into books. She doesn't read them, Miss Minchin; she gobbles them up as if she were a little wolf instead of a little girl. She is always starving for new books to gobble, and she wants grown-up books--great, big, fat ones--French and German as well as English--history and biography and poets, and all sorts of things. Drag her away from her books when she reads too much.”
“Everything evens up, you just wait, Even a garbage can gets a steak, You ain't even a garbage can, you have faith!”
“I was trained from the beginning to work, to save, and to give.”
“The American government is a rule of the people, by the people, for the bosses.”
“Those with a gift for action, for their part, often express contempt for those whose gifts are more reflective. Men of action like to say, Those who can, do, those who cant, teach, forgetting that those who teach get to write the history books.”

Source : Michael Ignatieff (2013). “Fire and Ashes”, p.171, Harvard University Press
“There is no document of civilization that is not at the same time a document of barbarism.”

Source : "Theses on the Philosophy of History" by Walter Benjamin, translated by Harry Zohn, Illuminations, (VII), 1973.
“I believe all drunks go to heaven, because they've been through hell on Earth.”
“I'm substantially concerned about the policy directions of the space agency. We have a situation in the U.S. where the White House and Congress are at odds over what the future direction should be. They're sort of playing a game and NASA is the shuttlecock that they're hitting back and forth.”

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