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"Art and science work in quite different ways: agreed. But, bad as it may sound, I have to admit that I cannot get along as an artist without the use of one or two sciences. ... 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."
"On thinking about Hell, I gather My brother Shelley found it was a place Much like the city of London. I Who live in Los Angeles and not in London Find, on thinking about Hell, that it must be Still more like Los Angeles."
"General, your tank is a powerful vehicle it smashes down forests and crushes a hundred men. but it has one defect: it needs a driver."
"The shrill voices of those who give orders Are full of fear like the squeakings of Piglets awaiting the butcher's knife, as their fat arses Sweat with anxiety in their office chairs.... Fear rules not only those who are ruled, but The rulers too."
"I don't like where I'm going and I don't like where I've been. Why am I in a hurry?"
"The fanatics for progress often have too little appreciation of the existing."
"The right to happiness is fundamental; men live so little time and die alone."
"...it is simplicity that is difficult to make."
"For the task assigned them Men aren't smart enough or sly Any rogue can blind them With a clever lie."
"Who struggles can fail. Who doesn't struggle has already failed!"
"There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two."
"People are too durable, that's their main trouble. They can do too much to themselves, they last too long."
"Erst kommt das Fressen, dann kommt die Moral."
"Things take indeed a wondrous turn When learned men do stoop to learn."
"When the leaders speak of peace, the common folk know war is coming."
"The more innocent they are, the more they deserve to be shot."
"The finest plans have always been spoiled by the littleness of them that should carry them out. Even emperors can't do it all by themselves."
"The finest plans are always ruined by the littleness of those who ought to carry them out, for emperor himself can actually be nothing."
"Temptation to behave is terrible."
"Spring is noticed, if at all By people sitting in railway trains."