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One cannot be arraigned for declaring a war, which every ruler has to do once in a while, but only for running a war badly.

Bertolt Brecht

First the pork chops, then morality
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Firsts Morality Pork
When you name yourself, you always name another.
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Always Another Names
People who fight may lose. People who do not fight have already lost.
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Fighting May People
Spring is noticed, if at all By people sitting in railway trains.
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People Sitting Spring
The headlong stream is termed violent But the river bed hemming it in is Termed violent by no one.
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Bed Rivers Violent
Pleasures First look from morning’s window The rediscovered book Fascinated faces Snow, the change of the seasons
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Book Change Dog Morning
Unfortunate the country that needs heroes!
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Country Hero Needs
There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.
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Leadership Numbers Two
What a miserable thing life is: you’re in clover; only the clover isn’t good enough.
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Gratitude Life Sadness
When the leaders speak of peace The common folk know That war is coming When the leaders curse war
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Common Folk Lying War
The worst illiterate is the political illiterate. He hears nothing, sees nothing, takes no part in political life. He doesn’t seem to know that the cost of living, the price of beans, of flour, of rent, of medicines all depend on political decisions.
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Children Hate Ignorance
Never believe on faith, see for yourself! What you yourself don’t learn you don’t know.
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Believe Knows Learn
General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.
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Defect Men Thinking
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
It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk.
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Banker Clerk Fog
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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God Sky Storm

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