Burma Campaign/the Balance Shifts 1943%e2%80%931944

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    “If the Third World War is fought with nuclear weapons, the fourth will be fought with bows and arrows.”
    —Louis, 1st Earl Mountbatten Of Burma Mountbatten (1900–1979)

    “You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose.”
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    “Bourgeois society is infected by monomania: the monomania of accounting. For it, the only thing that has value is what can be counted in francs and centimes. It never hesitates to sacrifice human life to figures which look well on paper, such as national budgets or industrial balance sheets.”
    —Simone Weil (1909–1943)

    “God is a foreman with certain definite views
    Who orders life in shifts of work and leisure.”
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