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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

When the house of a great one collapses Many little ones are slain.
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Collapse House Littles
There are a few things that’ll move people to pity, a few, but the trouble is, when they’ve been used several times, they no longer work.
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Moving People Trouble
Firebugs dragging their gasoline bottles are approaching the Academy of Arts, with a grin. And so, instead of embracing them, let us demand the freedom of the elbow to knock the bottles out of their filthy hands.
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Art Embrace Hands War
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
Those against politics are in favor of the politics inflicted upon them.
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Democracy Favors Freedom
The rain Never falls upwards. When the wound Stops hurting What hurts is The scar.
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Fall Hurt Rain
The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn When teachers themselves are taught to learn.
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Crazy Literature Teacher
Young Alexander conquered India. He alone? Caesar beat the Gauls. Was there not even a cook in his army? Philip of Spain wept as his fleet was sunk and destroyed. Were there no other tears? Frederick the Great triumphed in the Seven Years War. Who Triumphed with him?
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Army War Years
It was never decreed that a god mustn’t pay hotel bills.
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Bills Hotel Pay
The righteous one has no sense of humor.
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Humor One Righteous Sense
Those who take the most from the table, teach contentment. Those for whom the taxes are destined, demand sacrifice. Those who eat their fill, speak to the hungry, of wonderful times to come. Those who lead the country into the abyss, call ruling difficult, for ordinary folk.
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Contentment Country Sacrifice
Science knows only one commandment – contribute to science.
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Account Knows Science
Grub first, then ethics.
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Cooking First Food
He who speaks of enemies , himself is the enemy.
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Enemy Himself Speak
What kind of times are they, when A talk about trees is almost a crime Because it implies silence about so many horrors?
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Kind Silence Tree

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

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