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Spring is noticed, if at all By people sitting in railway trains.

Bertolt Brecht

In the contradiction lies the hope.
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Contradiction Hope Lying
Then I will tell you something. I do not believe in it. Forty years among men has consistently taught me that they are not amenable to commonsense.
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Belief Men Running
What a miserable thing life is: you’re in clover; only the clover isn’t good enough.
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Gratitude Life Sadness
People cannot remain good unless good is expected of them.
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Expected Good People Remain
Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.
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Art Mirror Reality
I don’t trust him. We’re friends.
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Friendship Negative Trust
Who struggles can fail. Who doesn’t struggle has already failed!
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Diversity Justice Struggle
If you fight you might lose, if you don’t you have already lost.
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Fighting Lost
Who fights may lose, but who does not fight has lost already.
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Already Fighting May
When evil-doing comes like falling rain, nobody calls out “stop!” 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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Become Doing Evil Invisible Suffering
Things take indeed a wondrous turn When learned men do stoop to learn.
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Men Scholarship Turns
Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.
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Death Fear Life
Grub first, then ethics.
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Cooking First Food
Their peace and their war Are like wind and storm. War grows from their peace.
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Peace Storm War Wind
To those who does not know the world is on fire, I have nothing to say.
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Fire Nothing World
Don’t be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.
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Anticipation Death Life

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