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For time flows on, and if it did not, it would be a bad prospect for those who do not sit at golden tables.

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
Each of us is the strongest one in his or her own skin. Characteristics should take off their hats to one another, instead of spitting in each other’s faces.
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Characteristics Each Face Spitting
The righteous one has no sense of humor.
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Humor One Righteous Sense
The worst illiterate is the political illiterate. He hears nothing, sees nothing, takes no part in political life. He doesn’t seem to know that the cost of living, the price of beans, of flour, of rent, of medicines all depend on political decisions.
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Children Hate Ignorance
Grub first, then ethics.
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Cooking First Food
All artforms are in the service of the greatest of all arts: the art of living.
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Art Living Service
For art to be ‘unpolitical’ means only to ally itself with the ‘ruling’ group.
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Allies Art Mean
Who struggles can fail. Who doesn’t struggle has already failed!
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Diversity Justice Struggle
Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.
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Death Fear Life
First feed the face, then talk right and wrong.
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Faces Firsts Talk
There are a few things that’ll move people to pity, a few, but the trouble is, when they’ve been used several times, they no longer work.
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Moving People Trouble
No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.
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Demand Literature Long
Who built the seven gates of Thebes? In the books are listed the names of kings. Did the kings heave up the building blocks?
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Block Book Kings
Whenever there are great virtues, it’s a sure sign something’s wrong.
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Great Something Virtue Wrong
When the leaders speak of peace, the common folk know war is coming.
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Common Folk Leader War
The mill wheel turns, it turns forever, though what is uppermost remains not so.
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Forever Mills Wheels

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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