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General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.

Bertolt Brecht

Fearful is the seductive power of goodness.
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Fearful Goodness Seductive
Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.
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Poverty Wells Wise
Grub first, then ethics.
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Cooking First Food
Suppose they gave a war, and nobody came? Why then, the war would come to you!
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Politics Suppose War
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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Characteristics Each Face Spitting
Would it not be simpler If the Government dissolved the people and elected another?
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Another Government People
Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.
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Art Mirror Reality
Oh why do we not say the important things, it would be so easy, and we are damned because we do not.
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Dammed Easy Important
I don’t like where I’m going and I don’t like where I’ve been. Why am I in a hurry?
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Going Hurry Like
Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.
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Mistake Moving Wisdom
If you don’t have fun, you don’t have a show.
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Fun Inspirational Shows
Boy Meets Girl, So What?
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Boys Broken Girl Heart
When the leaders speak of peace, the common folk know war is coming.
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Common Folk Leader War
He who fights, can lose. He who doesn’t fight, has already lost.
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Fighting Loses Lost
You have to attack once the truth is too weak to defend itself.
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Defend Truth Weak
The human race tends to remember the abuses to which it has been subjected rather than the endearments. What’s left of kisses? Wounds, however, leave scars.
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Abuse Kissing Race

General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.

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