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Alas,we who wanted kindness, could not be kind ourselves.

Bertolt Brecht

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
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
Nowadays, anyone who wishes to combat lies and ignorance and to write the truth must overcome at least five difficulties.
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Lying Running Writing
But something’s missing.
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Lot Missing Something
Whenever there are great virtues, it’s a sure sign something’s wrong.
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Great Something Virtue Wrong
Don’t be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.
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Anticipation Death Life
It’s all right to hesitate if you then go ahead.
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Ahead Literature Travel
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 a few things that’ll move people to pity, a few, but the trouble is, when they’ve been used several times, they no longer work.
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Moving People Trouble
People who understand everything get no stories.
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People Stories Understand
Of all the works of man I like best Those which have been used. The copper pots with their dents and flattened edges The knives and forks whose wooden handles Have been worn away by many hands: such forms Seemed to me the noblest.
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Approaching Folk Hands Knives Men
Right is its own defense.
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Defense Literature Own Right
Young Alexander conquered India. He alone? Caesar beat the Gauls. Was there not even a cook in his army? Philip of Spain wept as his fleet was sunk and destroyed. Were there no other tears? Frederick the Great triumphed in the Seven Years War. Who Triumphed with him?
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Army War Years
Terrible is the temptation to be good.
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Be Good Temptation Terrible
When the house of a great one collapses Many little ones are slain.
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Collapse House Littles

Alas,we who wanted kindness, could not be kind ourselves.

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