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Those who have had no share in the good fortunes of the mighty Often have a share in their misfortunes.

Bertolt Brecht

He who fights, can lose. He who doesn’t fight, has already lost.
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Fighting Loses Lost
Recently my fingers have developed a prejudice against comparatives. They all follow this pattern: a squirrel is smaller than a tree; a bird is more musical than a tree.
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Bird Perspective Squirrels
Boy Meets Girl, So What?
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Boys Broken Girl Heart
The newspaper The dog Dialectics Showering, swimming Old music Comfortable shoes Comprehension New music Writing, planting Traveling Singing Being friendly
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Comfortable Dog Newspaper Planting Shoe Singing
Unfortunate the country that needs heroes!
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Country Hero Needs
It’s all right to hesitate if you then go ahead.
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Ahead Literature Travel
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
To those who does not know the world is on fire, I have nothing to say.
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Fire Nothing World
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
Don’t tell me peace has broken out.
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Broken Out Peace
We often do not know ourselves the grounds On which we act, though plain to others.
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Ground Knows Others Ourselves
When something seems ‘the most obvious thing in the world’ it means that any attempt to understand the world has been given up.
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Mean World
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
You don’t need to pray to God any more when there are storms in the sky, but you do have to be insured.
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God Sky Storm
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 praying does no good, insurance does help.
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Helping Insurance Praying

Those who have had no share in the good fortunes of the mighty Often have a share in their misfortunes.

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