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CHRISTOPHE SIMON/AFP/Getty Images I’m not thinking to cut my beard, because I’m accustomed to my beard and my beard means many things to my country. When we have fulfilled our promise of good government I will cut my beard.” — Castro in 1959, interviewed by CBS’s Edward Murrow

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I’m not thinking to cut my beard, because I’m accustomed to my beard and my beard means many things to my country. When we have fulfilled our promise of good government I will cut my beard.”

— Castro in 1959, interviewed by CBS’s Edward Murrow

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