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For time flows on, and if it did not, it would be a bad prospect for those who do not sit at golden tables.

Bertolt Brecht

I don’t like where I’m going and I don’t like where I’ve been. Why am I in a hurry?
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Going Hurry Like
General, your bomber is powerful. It flies faster than a storm and carries more than an elephant. But it has one defect: It needs a mechanic. General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.
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Bother Carries Defect Faster General Man Storm
The war which is coming Is not the first one. There were Other wars before it. When the last one came to an end There were conquerors and conquered. Among the conquered the common people Starved. Among the conquerors The common people starved too.
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Lasts People War
Show them the red tail of a comet, fill them with black terror, and they will all come running out of their houses and break their legs. But tell them one sensible proposition, and support it with seven reasons, and they will simply laugh in your face.
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Black Proposition Running Sensible Show Support
People who fight may lose. People who do not fight have already lost.
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Fighting May People
There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.
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Leadership Numbers Two
When the praying does no good, insurance does help.
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Helping Insurance Praying
The fate of man is man.
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Fate Men Trust
Oh why do we not say the important things, it would be so easy, and we are damned because we do not.
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Dammed Easy Important
The man who laughs has simply not yet had the terrible news.
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Laughing Laughter Men
People cannot remain good unless good is expected of them.
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Expected Good People Remain
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
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
Spring is noticed, if at all By people sitting in railway trains.
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People Sitting Spring
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

For time flows on, and if it did not, it would be a bad prospect for those who do not sit at golden tables.

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