The mobilization order is already written out. Every day, to earn my daily bread I go to the market where lies are bought Hopefully I take up my place among the sellers.
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…it is simplicity that is difficult to make.
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Those who take the most from the table, teach contentment. Those for whom the taxes are destined, demand sacrifice. Those who eat their fill, speak to the hungry, of wonderful times to come. Those who lead the country into the abyss, call ruling difficult, for ordinary folk.
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To live means to finesse the processes to which one is subjugated.
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We attacked a foreign people and treated them like rebels. As you know, it’s all right to treat barbarians barbarically. It’s the desire to be barbaric that makes governments call their enemies barbarians.
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Unfortunate the country that needs heroes!
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In the dark times Will there also be singing? Yes, there will also be singing. About the dark times.
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Nowadays, anyone who wishes to combat lies and ignorance and to write the truth must overcome at least five difficulties.
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If you fight you might lose, if you don’t you have already lost.
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One must live well to know what living is.
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What kind of times are they, when A talk about trees is almost a crime Because it implies silence about so many horrors?
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From the cradle to the coffin underwear comes first.
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What they could do with ’round here is a good war. What else can you expect with peace running wild all over the place? You know what the trouble with peace is? No organization.
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Terrible is the temptation to be good.
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General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.
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You don’t need to pray to God any more when there are storms in the sky, but you do have to be insured.
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Then I will tell you something. I do not believe in it. Forty years among men has consistently taught me that they are not amenable to commonsense.
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There are a few things that’ll move people to pity, a few, but the trouble is, when they’ve been used several times, they no longer work.
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If you don’t have fun, you don’t have a show.
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A man who strains himself on the stage is bound, if he is any good, to strain all the people sitting in the stalls.
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A man who sees another man on the street corner with only a stump for an arm will be so shocked the first time he’ll give him sixpence. But the second time it’ll only be a three penny bit. And if he sees him a third time, he’ll have him cold-bloodedly handed over to the police.
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Who fights may lose, but who does not fight has lost already.
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He who is still laughing is he who hasn’t heard the terrible news.
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It’s never too late for those whose time has come.
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What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank?
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You may proclaim, good sirs, your fine philosophy But till you feed us, right and wrong can wait!
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Don’t tell me peace has broken out.
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