The righteous one has no sense of humor.
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Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must change.
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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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All the gang of those who rule us Hope our quarrels never stop Helping them to split and fool us So they can remain on top.
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Go make yourself a plan And be a shining light. Then make yourself a second plan, For neither will come right.
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There are times when you have to choose between being human and having good taste.
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Love is also like a coconut which is good while it is fresh, but you have to spit it out when the juice is gone, what’s left tastes bitter.
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What they could do with ’round here is a good war. What else can you expect with peace running wild all over the place? You know what the trouble with peace is? No organization.
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For once you must try not to shirk the facts: mankind is kept alive by bestial acts.
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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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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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General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.
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Unhappiness doesn’t grow on the chest like leprosy. Poverty won’t fall off the roof like a loose tile, no; poverty and unhappiness are man’s doing.
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It isn’t important to come out on top, what matters is to be the one who comes out alive.
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What kind of times are they, when A talk about trees is almost a crime Because it implies silence about so many horrors?
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The defeats and victories of the fellows at the top aren’t always defeats and victories for the fellows at the bottom.
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