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

Bertolt Brecht

We often do not know ourselves the grounds On which we act, though plain to others.
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Ground Knows Others Ourselves
None will improve your lot If you yourself do not.
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Inspirational Life Motivational
It’s all right to hesitate if you then go ahead.
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Ahead Literature Travel
The shrill voices of those who give orders Are full of fear like the squeakings of Piglets awaiting the butcher’s knife, as their fat arses Sweat with anxiety in their office chairs…. Fear rules not only those who are ruled, but The rulers too.
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Knives Order Sweat
Writers can’t write as fast as governments make wars; because to write demands thinking.
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Thinking War Writing
Who does Not Know the Truth, is simply a Fool… Yet who Knows the Truth and Calls it a Lie, is a Criminal.
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Criminals Doe Lying
When the leaders speak of peace, the common folk know war is coming.
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Common Folk Leader War
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
I am a playwright. I show What I have seen. In the man markets I have seen how men are traded. That I show, I, the playwright.
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Men Show Traded
What they could do with ’round here is a good war. What else can you expect with peace running wild all over the place? You know what the trouble with peace is? No organization.
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Peace Running 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
The first time it was reported that our friends were being butchered there was a cry of horror. Then a hundred were butchered. But when a thousand were butchered and there was no end to the butchery, a blanket of silence spread.
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Fall Rain Summer
All artforms are in the service of the greatest of all arts: the art of living.
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Art Living Service
General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.
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Defect Men Thinking
Unfortunate the country that needs heroes!
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Country Hero Needs

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