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Who fights may lose, but who does not fight has lost already.

Bertolt Brecht

Those who take the most from the table, teach contentment. Those for whom the taxes are destined, demand sacrifice. Those who eat their fill, speak to the hungry, of wonderful times to come. Those who lead the country into the abyss, call ruling difficult, for ordinary folk.
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Contentment Country Sacrifice
You have to attack once the truth is too weak to defend itself.
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Defend Truth Weak
A theater without beer is just a museum
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Beer Museums Theater
Love is also like a coconut which is good while it is fresh, but you have to spit it out when the juice is gone, what’s left tastes bitter.
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Gone Love Sad Taste
Everyone needs help from everyone.
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Collaboration Helping Needs
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
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
General, your bomber is powerful. It flies faster than a storm and carries more than an elephant. But it has one defect: It needs a mechanic. General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.
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Bother Carries Defect Faster General Man Storm
Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must change.
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Order Reality Representation
Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes.
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Happiness Hero Land
When the wound/ No longer hurts/ The scar does.
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Doe Hurt Scar
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
A man who sees another man on the street corner with only a stump for an arm will be so shocked the first time he’ll give him sixpence. But the second time it’ll only be a three penny bit. And if he sees him a third time, he’ll have him cold-bloodedly handed over to the police.
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Giving Men Police Six Street Time
Oh why do we not say the important things, it would be so easy, and we are damned because we do not.
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Dammed Easy Important
No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.
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Demand Literature Long
The human race tends to remember the abuses to which it has been subjected rather than the endearments. What’s left of kisses? Wounds, however, leave scars.
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Abuse Kissing Race

Who fights may lose, but who does not fight has lost already.

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