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One cannot be arraigned for declaring a war, which every ruler has to do once in a while, but only for running a war badly.

Bertolt Brecht

Sometimes it’s more important to be human, than to have good taste.
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Important Sometimes Taste
Then I will tell you something. I do not believe in it. Forty years among men has consistently taught me that they are not amenable to commonsense.
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Belief Men Running
I don’t trust him. We’re friends.
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Friendship Negative Trust
What they could do with ’round here is a good war. What else can you expect with peace running wild all over the place? You know what the trouble with peace is? No organization.
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Peace Running War
Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
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Change Moving Stay Strong
Eats first, morals after.
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Eat Firsts Moral
The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set a limit to infinite error.
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Errors Science Wisdom
One cannot be arraigned for declaring a war, which every ruler has to do once in a while, but only for running a war badly.
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Declaring Running War
Pleasures First look from morning’s window The rediscovered book Fascinated faces Snow, the change of the seasons
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Book Change Dog Morning
Writers can’t write as fast as governments make wars; because to write demands thinking.
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Thinking War Writing
People cannot remain good unless good is expected of them.
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Expected Good People Remain
What’s a joy to the one is a nightmare to the other.
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Joy Nightmare One Other
Those against politics are in favor of the politics inflicted upon them.
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Democracy Favors Freedom
Never believe on faith, see for yourself! What you yourself don’t learn you don’t know.
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Believe Knows Learn
When crimes begin to pile up they become invisible. When sufferings become unendurable the cries are no longer heard. The cries, too, fall like rain in summer.
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Fall Rain Summer
Love is also like a coconut which is good while it is fresh, but you have to spit it out when the juice is gone, what’s left tastes bitter.
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Gone Love Sad Taste

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