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

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Fidel Castro
Age: 90 †
Born: 1926
Born: August 13
Died: 2016
Died: November 25
Former Prime Minister Of Cuba
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Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz
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In the Third World, there are 1.3 billion poor people. In other words, one out of every three inhabitants lives in poverty.
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I am not a communist and neither is the revolutionary movement.
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I have not seen the Himalayas. But I have seen Sheikh Mujib. In personality and in courage, this man is the Himalayas. I have thus had the experience of witnessing the Himalayas.
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There is no more democratic government than a revolutionary government.
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A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.
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So these Red Sox... are they a Communist organization?
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Why do some people have to go barefoot so that others can drive luxury cars? Why are some people able to live only 35 years in order that others can live 70 years? Why do some people have to be miserably poor in order that others can be extravagantly rich? I speak for all the children in the world who don't even have a piece of bread.
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I never perceived a contradiction in the political revolutionary field between the ideas I maintained and the idea of that symbol, that extraordinary figure who had been so familiar to me since I began to reason.
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We are going to give a little something, a few little years more, to socialism, because socialism is defunct. It dies all by itself. The bad thing is that socialism, being a victim of its... Did I say socialism?
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The societies of consumption and squandering of material resources are incompatible with the idea of economic growth and a clean planet.
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U.S. leaders should think that if they are aiding terrorist plans to eliminate Cuban leaders, they themselves will not be safe.
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If surviving assassination attempts were an Olympic event, I would win the gold medal.
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The greatest competition of idiocy and ignorance that has ever been.
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...quality of life lies in knowledge, in culture. Values are what constitute true quality of life, the supreme quality of life, even above food, shelter and clothing.
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We are not only a Latin American nation, we are an Afro-American nation also.
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Sorry, I'm still a dialectical materialist.
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I can assure you that my first and foremost interest is my country. This is not a personal matter. We are not people driven by a wish to be in the government since [it] is for us the least attractive work, even though we are politicians.
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I don't think anyone has been slandered more than the Jews.
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Fellow workers and peasants, this is the socialist and democratic revolution of the working people, with the working people, and for the working people. And for this revolution of the working people, by the working people, and for the working people we are prepared to give our lives.
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It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and a plan of action.
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