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One must live well to know what living is.

Bertolt Brecht

Young Alexander conquered India. He alone? Caesar beat the Gauls. Was there not even a cook in his army? Philip of Spain wept as his fleet was sunk and destroyed. Were there no other tears? Frederick the Great triumphed in the Seven Years War. Who Triumphed with him?
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Army War Years
Those against politics are in favor of the politics inflicted upon them.
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Democracy Favors Freedom
For time flows on, and if it did not, it would be a bad prospect for those who do not sit at golden tables.
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Order Reality Tables
What rapture, oh, it is to know A good thing when you see it And having seen a good thing, oh, What rapture ’tis to flee it.
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Good Knows Rapture Things
Little changes are the enemies of great changes.
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Change Enemy Littles
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
First feed the face, then talk right and wrong.
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Faces Firsts Talk
The more innocent they are, the more they deserve to be shot.
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Deserve Innocent Shots
We attacked a foreign people and treated them like rebels. As you know, it’s all right to treat barbarians barbarically. It’s the desire to be barbaric that makes governments call their enemies barbarians.
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Government People War
All the gang of those who rule us Hope our quarrels never stop Helping them to split and fool us So they can remain on top.
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Fool Government Splits
The mill wheel turns, it turns forever, though what is uppermost remains not so.
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Forever Mills Wheels
I don’t trust him. We’re friends.
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Friendship Negative Trust
Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.
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Mistake Moving Wisdom
The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn When teachers themselves are taught to learn.
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Crazy Literature Teacher
Would it not be simpler If the Government dissolved the people and elected another?
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Another Government People
The righteous one has no sense of humor.
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Humor One Righteous Sense

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