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

Bertolt Brecht

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
None will improve your lot If you yourself do not.
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Inspirational Life Motivational
As regards obstacles, the shortest distance between two points can be a curve.
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Curves Distance Two
One must live well to know what living is.
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Knows Live Must Well
If you don’t have fun, you don’t have a show.
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Fun Inspirational Shows
One cannot be arraigned for declaring a war, which every ruler has to do once in a while, but only for running a war badly.
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Declaring Running War
Alas,we who wanted kindness, could not be kind ourselves.
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Be Kind Kindness Wanted
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
It was never decreed that a god mustn’t pay hotel bills.
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Bills Hotel Pay
I was called up in the war and sent to a hospital. I dressed wounds, applied iodine, gave enemas, did blood transfusions. If the doctor ordered: “Brecht, amputate a leg!”, I would reply, “Certainly, Your Excellency!”, and cut off the leg. If I was told, “Perform a trepanning!”
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Cutting Men Transfusion War
I Who live in Los Angeles and not in London Find, on thinking about Hell, that it must be Still more like Los Angeles.
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About Country Live Place
On thinking about Hell, I gather My brother Shelley found it was a place Much like the city of London.
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Brother Cities Thinking
Only bad generals need heroes.
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General Hero Needs
Realist writing, of which history offers many widely varying examples, is likewise conditioned by the question of how, when and for what class it is made use of.
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Condition Example Made Realist
Would it not be simpler If the Government dissolved the people and elected another?
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Another Government People
If you join the rat race — you’re in the race of rats.
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Join Race Rat

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