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The English Established Church... will more readily pardon an attack on 38 of its 39 articles than on 1/39 of its income.

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Karl Marx
Age: 64 †
Born: 1818
Born: May 5
Died: 1883
Died: March 14
Economist
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Philosopher
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Karl Heinrich Marx
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Language comes into being, like consciousness, from the basic need, from the scantiest intercourse with other human.
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Catch a man a fish, and you can sell it to him. Teach a man to fish, and you ruin a wonderful business opportunity.
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The working men have no country. We cannot take away from them what they have not got
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The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs.
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From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.
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The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e., the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force.
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Communism is the riddle of history solved, and it knows itself to be this solution.
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Money does not arise by convention, any more than the state does. It arises out of exchange, and arises naturally out of exchange it is a product of the same.
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A people without a heritage are easily persuaded.
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Since the working-class lives from hand to mouth,it buys as long as it has the means to buy.
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But there is a devil of a difference between barbarians who are fit by nature to be used for anything, and civilized people who apply them selves to everything.
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Hitherto, every form of society has been based ... on the antagonism of oppressing and oppressed classes.
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When the labourer co-operates systematically with others, he strips off the fetters of his individuality, and develops the capabilities of his species.
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Go on, get out - last words are for fools who haven't said enough. To his housekeeper, who urged him to tell her his last words so she could write them down for posterity.
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I am stretching out this volume, since those German dogs estimate the value of books by their cubic contents.
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