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Who fights may lose, but who does not fight has lost already.

Bertolt Brecht

The defeats and victories of the fellows at the top aren’t always defeats and victories for the fellows at the bottom.
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Defeat Sunset Victory
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
Sometimes it’s more important to be human, than to have good taste.
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Important Sometimes Taste
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
When the leaders speak of peace, the common folk know war is coming.
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Common Folk Leader War
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
The right to happiness is fundamental; men live so little time and die alone.
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Alone Happiness Joy Men
If you wan to steal money, don’t rob a bank – open one.
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Money One Open Stealing
Why be a man when you can be a success?
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Inspirational Life Motivational
Eats first, morals after.
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Eat Firsts Moral
From the cradle to the coffin underwear comes first.
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Clean Coffins Literature Underwear
To live means to finesse the processes to which one is subjugated.
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Finesse Mean Process
Schoenberg is too melodious for me, too sweet.
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Musical Schoenberg Sweet
Poverty makes you wise but it’s a curse.
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Curse Poverty Wise
Writers can’t write as fast as governments make wars; because to write demands thinking.
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Thinking War Writing
A theater without beer is just a museum
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Beer Museums Theater

Who fights may lose, but who does not fight has lost already.

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