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

Fidel Castro

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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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I am someone who's been in politics for 43 years and I know what I'm doing and what I should do. Have no doubt that I know how to tell the truth and to do so elegantly.
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You Americans keep saying that Cuba is ninety miles from the United States. I say that the United States is ninety miles from Cuba and for us, that is worse.
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North Americans don't understand... that our country is not just Cuba our country is also humanity.
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Condemn me, it does not matter: history will absolve me.
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So these Red Sox... are they a Communist organization?
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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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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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The Jews have lived an existence that is much harder than ours. There is nothing that compares to the Holocaust.
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The revenues of Cuban state-run companies are used exclusively for the benefit of the people, to whom they belong.
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We need a Nuremberg to put on trial the economic order that they have imposed on us, that every three years kills more men, women and children by hunger and preventable or curable diseases than the death toll in six years of the second world war.
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There are enough doctors on the planet so that nobody has to die for lack of attendance.
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There is nothing more agreeable than having a place where one can throw on the floor as many cigar butts as one pleases without the subconscious fear of a maid who is waiting like a sentinel to place an ashtray where the ashes are going to fall.
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The greatest competition of idiocy and ignorance that has ever been.
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It would have been the easiest thing in the world for us to build those emplacements under the guise of something totally different and they would have never been discovered. The amazing thing was that they weren't discovered earlier. It was a question of carelessness, lack of foresight.
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We are not only a Latin American nation, we are an Afro-American nation also.
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We must establish a new world order based on justice, on equity, and on peace.
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If people call me Christian, not from the standpoint of religion but from the standpoint of social vision, I declare that I am a Christian.
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Hysterical? Neuractic? I am all that ain't more than juggernaut!
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If we had paused to tell the people that we were Marxist-Leninists while we were on Pico Turquino and not yet strong, it is possible that we would never have been able to descend to the plains.
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I am not a communist and neither is the revolutionary movement.
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