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Each of us is the strongest one in his or her own skin. Characteristics should take off their hats to one another, instead of spitting in each other’s faces.

Bertolt Brecht

Who has good luck is good, Who has bad luck is bad.
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Bad Good Luck
If you fight you might lose, if you don’t you have already lost.
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Fighting Lost
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.
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Crush Men Powerful
There are some with brains and some without. It makes for a better division of labour.
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Brain Division Labor
Grub first, then ethics.
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Cooking First Food
No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.
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Demand Literature Long
A man who strains himself on the stage is bound, if he is any good, to strain all the people sitting in the stalls.
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Acting Men People
For once you must try not to shirk the facts: mankind is kept alive by bestial acts.
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Alive Sex Trying
Those who take the most from the table, teach contentment. Those for whom the taxes are destined, demand sacrifice. Those who eat their fill, speak to the hungry, of wonderful times to come. Those who lead the country into the abyss, call ruling difficult, for ordinary folk.
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Contentment Country Sacrifice
Why be a man when you can be a success?
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Inspirational Life Motivational
The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn When teachers themselves are taught to learn.
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Crazy Literature Teacher
If art reflects life, it does so with special mirrors.
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Art Mirrors Special
There are men who struggle for a day and they are good. There are men who struggle for a year and they are better. There are men who struggle many years, and they are better still. But there are those who struggle all their lives: These are the indispensable ones.
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Men Struggle Years
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
When the leaders speak of peace The common folk know That war is coming When the leaders curse war
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Common Folk Lying War
I opened the man’s skull and messed about with his brains. I saw how they patched fellows up, so as to cart them back to the Front as quickly as they could.
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Brains Cart Front Patch Skull

Each of us is the strongest one in his or her own skin. Characteristics should take off their hats to one another, instead of spitting in each other’s faces.

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