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Life is short and so is money.

Bertolt Brecht

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
War is like love, it always finds a way.
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Life Love Military
The worst illiterate is the political illiterate. He hears nothing, sees nothing, takes no part in political life. He doesn’t seem to know that the cost of living, the price of beans, of flour, of rent, of medicines all depend on political decisions.
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Children Hate Ignorance
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
The fate of man is man.
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Fate Men Trust
Whenever there are great virtues, it’s a sure sign something’s wrong.
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Great Something Virtue Wrong
Some party hack decreed that the people had lost the government’s confidence and could only regain it with redoubled effort. If that is the case, would it not be simpler, If the government simply dissolved the people And elected another?
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Government Party People
As regards obstacles, the shortest distance between two points can be a curve.
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Curves Distance Two
When the house of a great one collapses Many little ones are slain.
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Collapse House Littles
What rapture, oh, it is to know A good thing when you see it And having seen a good thing, oh, What rapture ’tis to flee it.
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Good Knows Rapture Things
Schoenberg is too melodious for me, too sweet.
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Musical Schoenberg Sweet
Today every invention is received with a cry of triumph which soon turns into a cry of fear.
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Fear Today Triumph
Here today we huddle tight As the darkest heathens might The snow falls chilly on our skin The snow is forcing its way in. Hush, snow, come in with us to dwell: We were thrown out by Heaven as well.
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Fall Heaven Snow
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
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

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