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Things take indeed a wondrous turn When learned men do stoop to learn.

Bertolt Brecht

As regards obstacles, the shortest distance between two points can be a curve.
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Curves Distance Two
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
For once you must try not to shirk the facts: mankind is kept alive by bestial acts.
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Alive Sex Trying
Life is short and so is money.
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Cute Life Money Short
The finest plans have always been spoiled by the littleness of them that should carry them out. Even emperors can’t do it all by themselves.
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Finest Spoil
If you fight you might lose, if you don’t you have already lost.
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Fighting Lost
Show them the red tail of a comet, fill them with black terror, and they will all come running out of their houses and break their legs. But tell them one sensible proposition, and support it with seven reasons, and they will simply laugh in your face.
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Black Proposition Running Sensible Show Support
The more innocent they are, the more they deserve to be shot.
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Deserve Innocent Shots
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
We attacked a foreign people and treated them like rebels. As you know, it’s all right to treat barbarians barbarically. It’s the desire to be barbaric that makes governments call their enemies barbarians.
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Government People War
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
Never believe on faith, see for yourself! What you yourself don’t learn you don’t know.
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Believe Knows Learn
Everyone needs help from everyone.
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Collaboration Helping Needs
Don’t be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.
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Anticipation Death Life
Sin is what is new, strong, surprising, strange. The theatre must take an interest in sin if the young are to be able to go there.
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Able Strong Theatre
A good soldier has his heart and soul in it. When he receives an order, he gets a hard on, and when he drives his lance through his enemy’s guts, he comes.
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Art Heart Order Philosophy

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