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

Bertolt Brecht

When you name yourself, you always name another.
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Always Another Names
The shrill voices of those who give orders Are full of fear like the squeakings of Piglets awaiting the butcher’s knife, as their fat arses Sweat with anxiety in their office chairs…. Fear rules not only those who are ruled, but The rulers too.
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Knives Order Sweat
The finest plans have always been spoiled by the littleness of them that should carry them out. Even emperors can’t do it all by themselves.
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Finest Spoil
The fanatics for progress often have too little appreciation of the existing.
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Appreciation Littles Progress
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
General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.
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Defect Men Thinking
The storm that bends the birch trees Is held to be violent But how about the storm That bends the backs of the roadworkers?
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Storm Tree Violent
Unfortunate the country that needs heroes!
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Country Hero Needs
As regards obstacles, the shortest distance between two points can be a curve.
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Curves Distance Two
To those who does not know the world is on fire, I have nothing to say.
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Fire Nothing World
First feed the face, then talk right and wrong.
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Faces Firsts Talk
If you join the rat race — you’re in the race of rats.
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Join Race Rat
I am a playwright. I show What I have seen. In the man markets I have seen how men are traded. That I show, I, the playwright.
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Men Show Traded
Only bad generals need heroes.
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General Hero Needs
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
Boy Meets Girl, So What?
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Boys Broken Girl Heart

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