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The righteous one has no sense of humor.

Bertolt Brecht

The defeats and victories of the fellows at the top aren’t always defeats and victories for the fellows at the bottom.
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Defeat Sunset Victory
The righteous one has no sense of humor.
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Humor One Righteous Sense
Today every invention is received with a cry of triumph which soon turns into a cry of fear.
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Fear Today Triumph
The finest plans are always ruined by the littleness of those who ought to carry them out, for emperor himself can actually be nothing.
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Emperor Finest Ruined
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
As regards obstacles, the shortest distance between two points can be a curve.
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Curves Distance Two
Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon.
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Book Men Weapons
From the start it has been the theatre’s business to entertain people … it needs no other passport than fun.
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Fun People Theatre
Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes.
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Happiness Hero Land
It was never decreed that a god mustn’t pay hotel bills.
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Bills Hotel Pay
Bank robbery is an initiative of amateurs. True professionals establish a bank.
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Bank Initiative Robbery
Writers can’t write as fast as governments make wars; because to write demands thinking.
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Thinking War Writing
Terrible is the temptation to be good.
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Be Good Temptation Terrible
To those who does not know the world is on fire, I have nothing to say.
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Fire Nothing World
He who speaks of enemies , himself is the enemy.
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Enemy Himself Speak
Only bad generals need heroes.
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General Hero Needs

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