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Love is the wish to give, not to receive.

Bertolt Brecht

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
Though the rich of this earth find no difficulty in creating misery, they can’t bear to see it.
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Bears Creating Earth
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
There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.
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Leadership Numbers Two
He who is still laughing is he who hasn’t heard the terrible news.
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Laughing News Terrible
Those against politics are in favor of the politics inflicted upon them.
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Democracy Favors Freedom
Eats first, morals after.
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Eat Firsts Moral
The right to happiness is fundamental; men live so little time and die alone.
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Alone Happiness Joy Men
People cannot remain good unless good is expected of them.
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Expected Good People Remain
The fanatics for progress often have too little appreciation of the existing.
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Appreciation Littles Progress
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 finest plans are always ruined by the littleness of those who ought to carry them out, for emperor himself can actually be nothing.
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Emperor Finest Ruined
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
One forgets too easily the difference between a man and his image, and that there is none between the sound of his voice on the screen and in real life.
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Men Real Screen Voice
One cannot be arraigned for declaring a war, which every ruler has to do once in a while, but only for running a war badly.
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Declaring Running War
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

Love is the wish to give, not to receive.

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