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He who fights, can lose. He who doesn’t fight, has already lost.

Bertolt Brecht

The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn When teachers themselves are taught to learn.
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Crazy Literature Teacher
Oh! Moon of Alabama We now must say good-bye We’ve lost our good old mama And must have whiskey Oh, you know why!
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Alabama Bye Moon
First the grub, then the morals.
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Firsts Miscellaneous Moral
Then I will tell you something. I do not believe in it. Forty years among men has consistently taught me that they are not amenable to commonsense.
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Belief Men Running
But something’s missing.
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Lot Missing Something
Their peace and their war Are like wind and storm. War grows from their peace.
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Peace Storm War Wind
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
When the leaders speak of peace, the common folk know war is coming.
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Common Folk Leader War
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
There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.
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Leadership Numbers Two
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
When you name yourself, you always name another.
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Always Another Names
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
Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.
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Death Fear Life
Mixing one’s wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.
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Mistake Wine Wisdom
To those who does not know the world is on fire, I have nothing to say.
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Fire Nothing World

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