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Only bad generals need heroes.

Bertolt Brecht

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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Moving People Trouble
When the praying does no good, insurance does help.
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Helping Insurance Praying
General, your tank is a powerful vehicle It smashes down forests and crushes a hundred men. But it has one defect: It needs a driver.
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Crush Men Powerful
Unfortunate the country that needs heroes!
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Country Hero Needs
But something’s missing.
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Lot Missing Something
Those against politics are in favor of the politics inflicted upon them.
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Democracy Favors Freedom
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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Acting Men People
Writers can’t write as fast as governments make wars; because to write demands thinking.
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Thinking War Writing
Impact lies in the vicinity of mistakes.
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Impact Lying Mistakes
Eats first, morals after.
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Eat Firsts Moral
The finest plans have always been spoiled by the littleness of them that should carry them out. Even emperors can’t do it all by themselves.
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Finest Spoil
Who does Not Know the Truth, is simply a Fool… Yet who Knows the Truth and Calls it a Lie, is a Criminal.
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Criminals Doe Lying
Spring is noticed, if at all By people sitting in railway trains.
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People Sitting Spring
Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.
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Death Fear Life
You can’t write poems about trees when the woods are full of policemen.
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Tree Wood Writing
The storm that bends the birch trees Is held to be violent But how about the storm That bends the backs of the roadworkers?
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Storm Tree Violent

Only bad generals need heroes.

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