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This quotation examines the core nature of History as articulated by Fidel Castro. Within historical and literary traditions, reflections on History provide actionable mental models, challenging individuals to evaluate personal ethics, self-discipline, and daily actions.

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About Fidel Castro

Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz was a Cuban communist revolutionary and politician who was the leader of Cuba from 1959 to 2011. He served as prime minister from 1959 to 1976, president from 1976 to 2008, and first secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba from 1965 until 2011. Ideologically a Marxist–Leninist and Cuban nationalist, under his administration Cuba became a one-party communist state; industry and business were nationalized, and socialist reforms were implemented throughout society.

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"They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America?"

— Fidel Castro
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"No thieves, no traitors, no interventionists! This time the revolution is for real!"

— Fidel Castro
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"Capitalism is using its money we socialists throw it away."

— Fidel Castro
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"I began revolution with 82 men. If I had to do it again, I do it with 10 or 15 and absolute faith. It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and plan of action."

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"Yesterday, December seventh, 1941, a date which will live in infamy, the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan."

— Franklin D. Roosevelt
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"A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect."

— Walter Scott
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"If you think Abraham Lincoln became famous for inventing the town car, it is time to spend a few hours on history."

— Bo Bennett
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"Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times."

— Gustave Flaubert
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