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It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk.

Bertolt Brecht

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
Realist writing, of which history offers many widely varying examples, is likewise conditioned by the question of how, when and for what class it is made use of.
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Condition Example Made Realist
Some party hack decreed that the people had lost the government’s confidence and could only regain it with redoubled effort. If that is the case, would it not be simpler, If the government simply dissolved the people And elected another?
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Government Party People
What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?
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Cheesy Funny Gone Good Morning
Today every invention is received with a cry of triumph which soon turns into a cry of fear.
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Fear Today Triumph
Spring is noticed, if at all By people sitting in railway trains.
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People Sitting Spring
When something seems ‘the most obvious thing in the world’ it means that any attempt to understand the world has been given up.
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Mean World
There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.
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Leadership Numbers Two
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
Things take indeed a wondrous turn When learned men do stoop to learn.
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Men Scholarship Turns
There are men who struggle for a day and they are good. There are men who struggle for a year and they are better. There are men who struggle many years, and they are better still. But there are those who struggle all their lives: These are the indispensable ones.
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Men Struggle Years
Mixing one’s wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.
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Mistake Wine Wisdom
First the grub, then the morals.
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Firsts Miscellaneous Moral
The fanatics for progress often have too little appreciation of the existing.
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Appreciation Littles Progress
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
What’s breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank?
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Banking Breaking Literature Silence

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