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Production that is essentially completed, which no longer requires strength, ability, inventiveness, entrepreneurship and brilliance (e.g., the transportation system, trusts, conglomerates) will be brought back to state ownership.

— Joseph Goebbels

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He who cannot hate the devil cannot love God.

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In a manner of speaking, it provides the background music.

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And in the last analysis better to go down with Bolshevism than live in eternal capitalist servitude.

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