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Men do not shape destiny. Destiny produces the man for the hour.

— Fidel Castro I Won't Be a Dictator (1959)

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Condemn me, it does not matter: history will absolve me.

History Will Absolve Me (1953)

Capitalism is a system based on blind, destructive and tyrannical laws imposed on the human species.

Capitalism has neither the capacity, nor the moral, nor the ethics, nor the will to solve the problems of poverty.

Marx and Lenin represent precisely the two human personalities that will mark the passage between prehistory and the history of mankind.

Democratic Korea, its leaders and its people will always live in our feelings of revolutionaries, patriots and fighters for the triumph of socialism.

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Poul Anderson The Corridors of Time (1965)

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