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Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.

Bertolt Brecht

The defeats and victories of the fellows at the top aren’t always defeats and victories for the fellows at the bottom.
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Defeat Sunset Victory
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
You can’t write poems about trees when the woods are full of policemen.
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Tree Wood 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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Defect Men Thinking
The human race tends to remember the abuses to which it has been subjected rather than the endearments. What’s left of kisses? Wounds, however, leave scars.
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Abuse Kissing Race
The first time it was reported that our friends were being butchered there was a cry of horror. Then a hundred were butchered. But when a thousand were butchered and there was no end to the butchery, a blanket of silence spread.
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Fall Rain Summer
Here today we huddle tight As the darkest heathens might The snow falls chilly on our skin The snow is forcing its way in. Hush, snow, come in with us to dwell: We were thrown out by Heaven as well.
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Fall Heaven Snow
It’s never too late for those whose time has come.
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Come Late never Too
Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon.
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Book Men Weapons
In the contradiction lies the hope.
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Contradiction Hope Lying
People who fight may lose. People who do not fight have already lost.
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Fighting May People
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
You can make a fresh start with your final breath.
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Breaths Finals Fresh Start
Who struggles can fail. Who doesn’t struggle has already failed!
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Diversity Justice Struggle
There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.
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Leadership Numbers Two
Boy Meets Girl, So What?
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Boys Broken Girl Heart
The righteous one has no sense of humor.
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Humor One Righteous Sense
The headlong stream is termed violent But the river bed hemming it in is Termed violent by no one.
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Bed Rivers Violent
Today every invention is received with a cry of triumph which soon turns into a cry of fear.
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Fear Today Triumph
…it is simplicity that is difficult to make.
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Design Difficult Simplicity Software
All the gang of those who rule us Hope our quarrels never stop Helping them to split and fool us So they can remain on top.
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Fool Government Splits
A theater without beer is just a museum
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Beer Museums Theater
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
All artforms are in the service of the greatest of all arts: the art of living.
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Art Living Service
There are times when you have to choose between being human and having good taste.
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Being Good Human Nature Taste
The newspaper The dog Dialectics Showering, swimming Old music Comfortable shoes Comprehension New music Writing, planting Traveling Singing Being friendly
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Comfortable Dog Newspaper Planting Shoe Singing
It was never decreed that a god mustn’t pay hotel bills.
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Bills Hotel Pay

Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.

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