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General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.

Bertolt Brecht

Who has good luck is good, Who has bad luck is bad.
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Bad Good Luck
What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?
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Cheesy Funny Gone Good Morning
The more innocent they are, the more they deserve to be shot.
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Deserve Innocent Shots
When the leaders speak of peace, the common folk know war is coming.
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Common Folk Leader War
The man who laughs has simply not yet had the terrible news.
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Laughing Laughter Men
What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank?
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Founding Funny Money Robbing
Never believe on faith, see for yourself! What you yourself don’t learn you don’t know.
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Believe Knows Learn
Mixing one’s wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.
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Mistake Wine Wisdom
Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must change.
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Order Reality Representation
We attacked a foreign people and treated them like rebels. As you know, it’s all right to treat barbarians barbarically. It’s the desire to be barbaric that makes governments call their enemies barbarians.
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Government People War
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
Something ignoble, loathsome, undignified attends all associations between people and has been transferred to all objects, dwelling, tools, even the landscape itself.
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Dwelling Object People Tool
First the grub, then the morals.
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Firsts Miscellaneous Moral
Sin is what is new, strong, surprising, strange. The theatre must take an interest in sin if the young are to be able to go there.
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Able Strong Theatre
Sometimes it’s more important to be human, than to have good taste.
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Important Sometimes Taste
There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.
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Leadership Numbers Two

General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.

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