"Women hold up half the sky."
-Mao Zedong
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"Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed."
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"Weapons are an important factor in war, but not the decisive one it is man and not materials that counts."
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"Politics is war without bloodshed, while war is politics with bloodshed."
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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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"Genuine equality between the sexes can only be realized in the process of the socialist transformation of society as a whole."
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"If I had been elected president in 1948, history would be vastly different. I believe we would have stemmed the growth of Big Government, which had begun with the New Deal and culminated with the Great Society."
-Strom Thurmond
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"For most of our history, Americans enjoyed both liberty and security from foreign threats."
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"There is nothing glorious about what our ancestors call history. It is simply a succession of mistakes, intolerances and violations."
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"This is a good time to ask apologists for the Islamic regime, who degrades Islam? Who imposes stoning, forced marriage of underage girls and flogging for not wearing the veil? Do such practices represent Iran's ancient history and culture, its ethnic and religious diversity? Its centuries of sensual and subversive poetry?"
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"What would be the nicest thing I could say about Newt Gingrich? He may be one of the great supporters of the humanities, because you have people who don't want to study the social sciences, because it's not profitable, and now Newt, as the highest-paid historian in American history, may be an encouragement to people to study history."
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