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It’s never too late for those whose time has come.

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
Let nothing be called natural In an age of bloody confusion, Ordered disorder, planned caprice, And dehumanized humanity, lest all things Be held unalterable!
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Confusion Humanity Nature
There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.
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Leadership Numbers Two
The first time it was reported that our friends were being butchered there was a cry of horror. Then a hundred were butchered. But when a thousand were butchered and there was no end to the butchery, a blanket of silence spread.
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Fall Rain Summer
Life is short and so is money.
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Cute Life Money Short
He who speaks of enemies , himself is the enemy.
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Enemy Himself Speak
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
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
If you fight you might lose, if you don’t you have already lost.
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Fighting Lost
The storm that bends the birch trees Is held to be violent But how about the storm That bends the backs of the roadworkers?
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Storm Tree Violent
You may proclaim, good sirs, your fine philosophy But till you feed us, right and wrong can wait!
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May Philosophy Waiting
Terrible is the temptation to be good.
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Be Good Temptation Terrible
To those who does not know the world is on fire, I have nothing to say.
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Fire Nothing World
Mixing one’s wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.
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Mistake Wine Wisdom
The mill wheel turns, it turns forever, though what is uppermost remains not so.
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Forever Mills Wheels
War is like love, it always finds a way.
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Life Love Military

It’s never too late for those whose time has come.

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