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Mixing one’s wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.

Bertolt Brecht

Go make yourself a plan And be a shining light. Then make yourself a second plan, For neither will come right.
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Light Planning Shining
People remain what they are even if their faces fall apart.
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Faces Fall People
Great sport begins at a point where it has ceased to be healthy.
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Great Healthy Sports
Art and science coincide insofar as both aim to improve the lives of men and women.
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Art Fashion Mean
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
As regards obstacles, the shortest distance between two points can be a curve.
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Curves Distance Two
There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.
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Leadership Numbers Two
Something ignoble, loathsome, undignified attends all associations between people and has been transferred to all objects, dwelling, tools, even the landscape itself.
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Dwelling Object People Tool
One must live well to know what living is.
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Knows Live Must Well
He who fights, can lose. He who doesn’t fight, has already lost.
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Fighting Loses Lost
Don’t be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.
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Anticipation Death Life
Temptation to behave is terrible.
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Literature Temptation Terrible
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
Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must also change. Nothing comes from nothing; the new comes from the old, but that is why it is new.
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Change Nothing Reality Representation
Little changes are the enemies of great changes.
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Change Enemy Littles
You can make a fresh start with your final breath.
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Breaths Finals Fresh Start

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