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For the task assigned them Men aren’t smart enough or sly Any rogue can blind them With a clever lie.

Bertolt Brecht

Don’t tell me peace has broken out.
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Broken Out Peace
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
Sometimes it’s more important to be human, than to have good taste.
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Important Sometimes Taste
He who is still laughing is he who hasn’t heard the terrible news.
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Laughing News Terrible
For the task assigned them Men aren’t smart enough or sly Any rogue can blind them With a clever lie.
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Clever Lying Smart
What rapture, oh, it is to know A good thing when you see it And having seen a good thing, oh, What rapture ’tis to flee it.
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Good Knows Rapture Things
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
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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Contentment Country Sacrifice
If you fight you might lose, if you don’t you have already lost.
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Fighting Lost
Erst kommt das Fressen, dann kommt die Moral.
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Anger Dies Moral
But something’s missing.
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Lot Missing Something
I opened the man’s skull and messed about with his brains. I saw how they patched fellows up, so as to cart them back to the Front as quickly as they could.
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Brains Cart Front Patch Skull
Only bad generals need heroes.
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General Hero Needs
Their peace and their war Are like wind and storm. War grows from their peace.
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Peace Storm War Wind
If you don’t have fun, you don’t have a show.
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Fun Inspirational Shows
You may proclaim, good sirs, your fine philosophy But till you feed us, right and wrong can wait!
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May Philosophy Waiting

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