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" Without doubt, machinery has greatly increased the number of well-to-do idlers. "

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" The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism. "

" A specter is haunting Europe - the specter of communism. "

" Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time. "

" Landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed. "

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" In a higher phase of communist society... only then can the narrow horizon of bourgeois right be fully left behind and society inscribe on its banners: from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs. "

" Greek philosophy seems to have met with something with which a good tragedy is not supposed to meet, namely, a dull ending. "

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