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Who does Not Know the Truth, is simply a Fool… Yet who Knows the Truth and Calls it a Lie, is a Criminal.

Bertolt Brecht

Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.
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Death Fear Life
Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must change.
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Order Reality Representation
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
Things take indeed a wondrous turn When learned men do stoop to learn.
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Men Scholarship Turns
Poverty makes you wise but it’s a curse.
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Curse Poverty Wise
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
There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.
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Leadership Numbers Two
The shrill voices of those who give orders Are full of fear like the squeakings of Piglets awaiting the butcher’s knife, as their fat arses Sweat with anxiety in their office chairs…. Fear rules not only those who are ruled, but The rulers too.
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Knives Order Sweat
General, your tank is a powerful vehicle It smashes down forests and crushes a hundred men. But it has one defect: It needs a driver.
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Crush Men Powerful
Whenever there are great virtues, it’s a sure sign something’s wrong.
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Great Something Virtue Wrong
Mixing one’s wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.
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Mistake Wine Wisdom
As regards obstacles, the shortest distance between two points can be a curve.
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Curves Distance Two
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
Don’t be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.
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Anticipation Death Life
For art to be ‘unpolitical’ means only to ally itself with the ‘ruling’ group.
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Allies Art Mean
The fanatics for progress often have too little appreciation of the existing.
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Appreciation Littles Progress

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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