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War is like love, it always finds a way.

Bertolt Brecht

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
Life is short and so is money.
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Cute Life Money Short
You can’t write poems about trees when the woods are full of policemen.
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Tree Wood Writing
For once you must try not to shirk the facts: mankind is kept alive by bestial acts.
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Alive Sex Trying
He who fights, can lose. He who doesn’t fight, has already lost.
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Fighting Loses Lost
Recently my fingers have developed a prejudice against comparatives. They all follow this pattern: a squirrel is smaller than a tree; a bird is more musical than a tree.
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Bird Perspective Squirrels
In the contradiction lies the hope.
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Contradiction Hope Lying
People are too durable, that’s their main trouble. They can do too much to themselves, they last too long.
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Long People Silly
It isn’t important to come out on top, what matters is to be the one who comes out alive.
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Acceptance Important Matters
Bank robbery is an initiative of amateurs. True professionals establish a bank.
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Bank Initiative Robbery
Oh! Moon of Alabama We now must say good-bye We’ve lost our good old mama And must have whiskey Oh, you know why!
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Alabama Bye Moon
There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.
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Leadership Numbers Two
The righteous one has no sense of humor.
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Humor One Righteous Sense
Things take indeed a wondrous turn When learned men do stoop to learn.
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Men Scholarship Turns
When something seems ‘the most obvious thing in the world’ it means that any attempt to understand the world has been given up.
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Mean World
It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk.
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Banker Clerk Fog

War is like love, it always finds a way.

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