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"Sometimes we are so caught up in the disappointment of plans gone astray that we fail to recognize the potentially new options that might now exist."

"When you begin conversations with confidence and listen attentively, you will become more flexible and adaptable in most any situation."

"Understanding is not absolutely final.What's now right could be wrong later."

"A person living in everyone else's style reacts only to stimulus."

"If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody."

"In the 21st century when few of us stay in the same job all our lives, I would like to think there was flexibility so teachers could become social workers, or foster carers become teachers."

"Life is all about flexibility."

"If people are not dancing to your tune, change the song."

"Life is ever changing. We can always adapt to the new changes."

"If there is possbility of the ability, I will choose flexibility."
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"You can have relatively high levels of class consciousness with a lower level of class militancy than one would have expected."

"Otherwise we get off the track and we do not fulfil the historical role which we want to fulfil: to help the masses, the exploited and the oppressed of the world, build a classless society, a world socialist federation."

"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."

"There is a process of social and of political differentiation going on in the real working class all the time."

"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."

"Furthermore, there is absolutely no contradiction between the separate organizations of revolutionary vanguard militants and their participation in the mass organizations of the working class."
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