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

Bertolt Brecht

Mixing one’s wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.
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Mistake Wine Wisdom
Who fights may lose, but who does not fight has lost already.
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Already Fighting May
The alienation effect in German epic theater is achieved not only through the actors, but also through music (chorus and song) andsets (transparencies, film strips, etc.). Its main purpose is to place the staged events in their historical context.
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Art Epic Film History Purpose Song
It’s all right to hesitate if you then go ahead.
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Ahead Literature Travel
The defeats and victories of the fellows at the top aren’t always defeats and victories for the fellows at the bottom.
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Defeat Sunset Victory
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
General, your tank is a powerful vehicle it smashes down forests and crushes a hundred men. but it has one defect: it needs a driver.
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Crush Men Powerful
You have to attack once the truth is too weak to defend itself.
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Defend Truth Weak
In the contradiction lies the hope.
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Contradiction Hope Lying
The mill wheel turns, it turns forever, though what is uppermost remains not so.
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Forever Mills Wheels
Art is not a mirror. Art is a hammer.
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Art Hammers Mirrors
Unfortunate the country that needs heroes!
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Country Hero Needs
To live means to finesse the processes to which one is subjugated.
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Finesse Mean Process
People are too durable, that’s their main trouble. They can do too much to themselves, they last too long.
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Long People Silly
I opened the man’s skull and messed about with his brains. I saw how they patched fellows up, so as to cart them back to the Front as quickly as they could.
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Brains Cart Front Patch Skull
If you wan to steal money, don’t rob a bank – open one.
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Money One Open Stealing

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