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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What’s a joy to the one is a nightmare to the other.
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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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Art and science coincide insofar as both aim to improve the lives of men and women.
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The defeats and victories of the fellows at the top aren’t always defeats and victories for the fellows at the bottom.
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You can’t write poems about trees when the woods are full of policemen.
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Here today we huddle tight As the darkest heathens might The snow falls chilly on our skin The snow is forcing its way in. Hush, snow, come in with us to dwell: We were thrown out by Heaven as well.
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When the leaders speak of peace The common folk know That war is coming When the leaders curse war
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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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When the wound/ No longer hurts/ The scar does.
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To those who does not know the world is on fire, I have nothing to say.
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The man who laughs has simply not yet had the terrible news.
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