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Weapons are an important factor in war, but not the decisive one; it is man and not materials that counts.
Mao Tse Tung
War
Man
Weapons
There is a serious tendency toward capitalism among the well-to-do peasants.
Mao Tse Tung
Capitalism
The guerrilla must move amongst the people as a fish swims in the sea.
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People
Fish
Sea
The differences between friends cannot but reinforce their friendship.
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Friendship
Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.
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Power
The cardinal responsibility of leadership is to identify the dominant contradiction at each point of the historical process and to work out a central line to resolve it.
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Leadership
Work
Contradiction
Responsibility
The atom bomb is a paper tiger which the United States reactionaries use to scare people. It looks terrible, but in fact it isn't.
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People
Fact
states
United
Swollen in head, weak in legs, sharp in tongue but empty in belly.
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Tongue
Politics is war without bloodshed, while war is politics with bloodshed.
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Politics
War
Political work is the life-blood of all economic work.
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Work
Life
People like me sound like a lot of big cannons.
Mao Tse Tung
People
Sound