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It isn’t important to come out on top, what matters is to be the one who comes out alive.

Bertolt Brecht

People remain what they are even if their faces fall apart.
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Faces Fall People
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
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
There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.
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Leadership Numbers Two
War is like love, it always finds a way.
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Life Love Military
Sin is what is new, strong, surprising, strange. The theatre must take an interest in sin if the young are to be able to go there.
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Able Strong Theatre
Impact lies in the vicinity of mistakes.
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Impact Lying Mistakes
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
Some party hack decreed that the people had lost the government’s confidence and could only regain it with redoubled effort. If that is the case, would it not be simpler, If the government simply dissolved the people And elected another?
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Government Party People
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
Temptation to behave is terrible.
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Literature Temptation Terrible
Though the rich of this earth find no difficulty in creating misery, they can’t bear to see it.
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Bears Creating Earth
For the task assigned them Men aren’t smart enough or sly Any rogue can blind them With a clever lie.
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Clever Lying Smart
He who fights, can lose. He who doesn’t fight, has already lost.
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Fighting Loses Lost
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
Writers can’t write as fast as governments make wars; because to write demands thinking.
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Thinking War Writing

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