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"We were thrilled and we were privileged to be part of a revolution, because make no mistake about it, Ted Turner changed the world with CNN."

"Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied."

"Mistakes are the only universal form of originality."

"Every true, eternal problem is an equally true, eternal fault; every answer an atonement, every realisation an improvement."

"For how long is there a superior? For as long as one makes mistakes. When mistakes cease to happen, there will be no superior thereafter."
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"There are no conditions in which we subordinate the interests of the class as a whole to the interests of any sect, any chapel, any separate organization."

"Only under conditions of revolutionary crises do you have the highest level of self-organization; this is the Soviet type of organization, which is to say, workers' councils, people's councils, call them what you want, popular committees."

"And you cannot have a socialist revolution commandeered from the top, ordered around by some omniscient leader or group of leaders."

"For us, Marxism is always open because there are always new xperiences, there are always new facts, including facts about the past, which have to be incorporated in the corpus of scientific socialism."

"Socialist democracy is not, a luxury and its need is not limited to the most advanced industrial countries."

"On the contrary, history generally confirms that the more conscious and the better you are organized in vanguard organizations, the more constructively you operate in the mass organizations of the working class."

"You need a vanguard organization in order to overcome the dangerous potential brought about by the uneven development of class militancy and class consciousness."

"The only conclusion you can draw from the real historical movement is that by and large, in day-to-day life, what Lenin called trade union consciousness dominates the working class. I would call it elementary class consciousness of the working class."
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