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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?

Bertolt Brecht

Who fights may lose, but who does not fight has lost already.
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Already Fighting May
Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.
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Mistake Moving Wisdom
The mill wheel turns, it turns forever, though what is uppermost remains not so.
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Forever Mills Wheels
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
Come in, dear wind, and be our guest You too have neither home nor rest.
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Guest Home Wind
Don’t be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.
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Anticipation Death Life
First feed the face, then talk right and wrong.
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Faces Firsts Talk
The man who laughs has simply not yet had the terrible news.
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Laughing Laughter Men
We often do not know ourselves the grounds On which we act, though plain to others.
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Ground Knows Others Ourselves
He who is still laughing is he who hasn’t heard the terrible news.
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Laughing News Terrible
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
Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.
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Death Fear Life
Would it not be simpler If the Government dissolved the people and elected another?
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Another Government People
Today every invention is received with a cry of triumph which soon turns into a cry of fear.
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Fear Today Triumph
In the contradiction lies the hope.
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Contradiction Hope Lying
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

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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