If you have a disease of the old society, take a dose of Lenin as medication.
"Lenin" in Cambodian rhymes with quinine.
The sick are as sly as rabbits, and can swallow a whole pot of rice.
If you do not complete your task during the day, you will complete it by night.
Work is a fight: you blaze like fire and reduce tree stumps to ashes.
The two vowels of "Pol Pot" are different in Cambodian; "Pull Port" would be a vague approximation. The grotesque, fairy-tale quality of the name in English is also absent in the Cambodian, in which "Pol Pot" is - or at least was - a quite anonymous-sounding name; "Jim Jones" might be a fair translation.
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