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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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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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The Jews have lived an existence that is much harder than ours. There is nothing that compares to the Holocaust.
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Cuba has the cleanest and most-educated prostitutes in the world.
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I never saw a contradiction between the ideas that sustain me and the ideas of that symbol, of that extraordinary figure, Jesus Christ.
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If there ever was in the history of humanity an enemy who was truly universal, an enemy whose acts and moves trouble the entire world, threaten the entire world, attack the entire world in any way or another, that real and really universal enemy is precisely Yankee imperialism.
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Sorry, I'm still a dialectical materialist.
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Repetition is a revolutionary virtue.
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I find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating... because it causes war, hypocrisy and competition.
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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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Condemn me, it does not matter: history will absolve me.
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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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On birthdays I avoid taking hasty or impulsive measures.
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How can we help President Obama?
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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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... If Mr. Kennedy does not like Socialism, we do not like imperialism. We do not like Capitalism.
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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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The greatest competition of idiocy and ignorance that has ever been.
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If surviving assassination attempts were an Olympic event, I would win the gold medal.
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