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If you fight you might lose, if you don’t you have already lost.

Bertolt Brecht

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
When the leaders speak of peace, the common folk know war is coming.
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Common Folk Leader War
Their peace and their war Are like wind and storm. War grows from their peace.
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Peace Storm War Wind
You have to attack once the truth is too weak to defend itself.
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Defend Truth Weak
Pleasures First look from morning’s window The rediscovered book Fascinated faces Snow, the change of the seasons
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Book Change Dog Morning
As regards obstacles, the shortest distance between two points can be a curve.
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Curves Distance Two
We often do not know ourselves the grounds On which we act, though plain to others.
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Ground Knows Others Ourselves
It’s all right to hesitate if you then go ahead.
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Ahead Literature Travel
In my view, the great and complicated things that go on in the world cannot be adequately recognized by people who do not use every possible aid to understanding.
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Adequately Great Recognized Understanding
Unfortunate the country that needs heroes!
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Country Hero Needs
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
If you fight you might lose, if you don’t you have already lost.
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Fighting Lost
I am a playwright. I show What I have seen. In the man markets I have seen how men are traded. That I show, I, the playwright.
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Men Show Traded
Don’t accept the habitual as a natural thing. In times of disorder, of organized confusion, of de-humanized humanity, nothing should seem natural. Nothing should seem impossible to change.
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Confusion Humanity Impossible
Fearful is the seductive power of goodness.
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Fearful Goodness Seductive

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