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The business of obscuring language is a mask behind which stands the much bigger business of plunder.


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Each generation must discover its mission, fulfill it or betray it, in relative opacity.



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Imperialism leaves behind germs of rot which we must clinically detect and remove from our land but from our minds as well.



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A government or a party gets the people it deserves and sooner or later a people gets the government it deserves.



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What matters is not to know the world but to change it.



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To educate the masses politically is to make the totality of the nation a reality to each citizen. It is to make the history of the nation part of the personal experience of each of its citizens.



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A lie that is half-truth is the darkest of all lies.



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Times before you, when even the living men were Antiquities; when the living might exceed the dead, and to depart this world, could not be properly said, to go unto the greater number.

Times before you, when even the living men were Antiquities; when the living might exceed the dead, and to depart this world, could not be properly said, to go unto the greater number.




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