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You may proclaim, good sirs, your fine philosophy But till you feed us, right and wrong can wait!

Bertolt Brecht

When the leaders speak of peace, the common folk know war is coming.
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Common Folk Leader War
In the dark times Will there also be singing? Yes, there will also be singing. About the dark times.
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Dark Inspirational Singing
The mobilization order is already written out. Every day, to earn my daily bread I go to the market where lies are bought Hopefully I take up my place among the sellers.
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Eran Hopefully Mobilization Out Place Seller Written
Those against politics are in favor of the politics inflicted upon them.
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Democracy Favors Freedom
People who understand everything get no stories.
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People Stories Understand
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
Life is short and so is money.
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Cute Life Money Short
The rain Never falls upwards. When the wound Stops hurting What hurts is The scar.
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Fall Hurt Rain
For once you must try not to shirk the facts: mankind is kept alive by bestial acts.
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Alive Sex Trying
It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk.
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Banker Clerk Fog
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
Their peace and their war Are like wind and storm. War grows from their peace.
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Peace Storm War Wind
Go make yourself a plan And be a shining light. Then make yourself a second plan, For neither will come right.
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Light Planning Shining
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
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
There are men who struggle for a day and they are good. There are men who struggle for a year and they are better. There are men who struggle many years, and they are better still. But there are those who struggle all their lives: These are the indispensable ones.
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Men Struggle Years

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