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When the leaders speak of peace The common folk know That war is coming When the leaders curse war

Bertolt Brecht

If art reflects life, it does so with special mirrors.
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Art Mirrors Special
Firebugs dragging their gasoline bottles are approaching the Academy of Arts, with a grin. And so, instead of embracing them, let us demand the freedom of the elbow to knock the bottles out of their filthy hands.
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Art Embrace Hands War
Who built the seven gates of Thebes? In the books are listed the names of kings. Did the kings heave up the building blocks?
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Block Book Kings
What a miserable thing life is: you’re in clover; only the clover isn’t good enough.
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Gratitude Life Sadness
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
One can describe the world of today to the people of today only if one describes it as capable of alteration.
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People Today World
Eats first, morals after.
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Eat Firsts Moral
Who does Not Know the Truth, is simply a Fool… Yet who Knows the Truth and Calls it a Lie, is a Criminal.
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Criminals Doe Lying
In the dark times Will there also be singing? Yes, there will also be singing. About the dark times.
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Dark Inspirational Singing
As regards obstacles, the shortest distance between two points can be a curve.
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Curves Distance Two
One forgets too easily the difference between a man and his image, and that there is none between the sound of his voice on the screen and in real life.
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Men Real Screen Voice
Suppose they gave a war, and nobody came? Why then, the war would come to you!
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Politics Suppose War
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
We often do not know ourselves the grounds On which we act, though plain to others.
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Ground Knows Others Ourselves
Who has good luck is good, Who has bad luck is bad.
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Bad Good Luck
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

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