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You may proclaim, good sirs, your fine philosophy But till you feed us, right and wrong can wait!

Bertolt Brecht

None will improve your lot If you yourself do not.
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Inspirational Life Motivational
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
For what’s the use of talking with a man who has a disease and thinks about the stars?
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Men Stars Thinking
A man who sees another man on the street corner with only a stump for an arm will be so shocked the first time he’ll give him sixpence. But the second time it’ll only be a three penny bit. And if he sees him a third time, he’ll have him cold-bloodedly handed over to the police.
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Giving Men Police Six Street Time
In my view, the great and complicated things that go on in the world cannot be adequately recognized by people who do not use every possible aid to understanding.
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Adequately Great Recognized Understanding
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
Erst kommt das Fressen, dann kommt die Moral.
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Anger Dies Moral
It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk.
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Banker Clerk Fog
The fanatics for progress often have too little appreciation of the existing.
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Appreciation Littles Progress
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
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
Even hatred of vileness Distorts a mans features.
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Features Hatred
Would it not be simpler If the Government dissolved the people and elected another?
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Another Government People
We often do not know ourselves the grounds On which we act, though plain to others.
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Ground Knows Others Ourselves
Grub first, then ethics.
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Cooking First Food

You may proclaim, good sirs, your fine philosophy But till you feed us, right and wrong can wait!

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