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General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.

Bertolt Brecht

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
For once you must try not to shirk the facts: mankind is kept alive by bestial acts.
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Alive Sex Trying
I don’t like where I’m going and I don’t like where I’ve been. Why am I in a hurry?
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Going Hurry Like
You can make a fresh start with your final breath.
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Breaths Finals Fresh Start
If art reflects life, it does so with special mirrors.
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Art Mirrors Special
Temptation to behave is terrible.
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Literature Temptation Terrible
Eats first, morals after.
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Eat Firsts Moral
With drooping shoulders The majority sit hunched, their foreheads furrowed like Stony ground that has been repeatedly ploughed-up to no purpose.
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Majority Purpose Shoulders
It’s never too late for those whose time has come.
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Come Late never Too
Only bad generals need heroes.
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General Hero Needs
The more innocent they are, the more they deserve to be shot.
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Deserve Innocent Shots
As regards obstacles, the shortest distance between two points can be a curve.
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Curves Distance Two
When crimes begin to pile up they become invisible. When sufferings become unendurable the cries are no longer heard. The cries, too, fall like rain in summer.
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Fall Rain Summer
Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.
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Mistake Moving Wisdom
Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods.
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Reality Taken Writing
Nowadays, anyone who wishes to combat lies and ignorance and to write the truth must overcome at least five difficulties.
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Lying Running Writing

General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.

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