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When the leaders speak of peace, the common folk know war is coming.

Bertolt Brecht

The rain Never falls upwards. When the wound Stops hurting What hurts is The scar.
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Fall Hurt Rain
If you fight you might lose, if you don’t you have already lost.
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Fighting Lost
Only bad generals need heroes.
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General Hero Needs
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
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
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
We often do not know ourselves the grounds On which we act, though plain to others.
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Ground Knows Others Ourselves
First feed the face, then talk right and wrong.
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Faces Firsts Talk
He who is still laughing is he who hasn’t heard the terrible news.
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Laughing News Terrible
Who struggles can fail. Who doesn’t struggle has already failed!
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Diversity Justice Struggle
I Who live in Los Angeles and not in London Find, on thinking about Hell, that it must be Still more like Los Angeles.
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About Country Live Place
None will improve your lot If you yourself do not.
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Inspirational Life Motivational
General, your tank is a powerful vehicle It smashes down forests and crushes a hundred men. But it has one defect: It needs a driver.
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Crush Men Powerful
I was called up in the war and sent to a hospital. I dressed wounds, applied iodine, gave enemas, did blood transfusions. If the doctor ordered: “Brecht, amputate a leg!”, I would reply, “Certainly, Your Excellency!”, and cut off the leg. If I was told, “Perform a trepanning!”
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Cutting Men Transfusion War
Don’t tell me peace has broken out.
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Broken Out Peace

When the leaders speak of peace, the common folk know war is coming.

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