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Great sport begins at a point where it has ceased to be healthy.

Bertolt Brecht

There are some with brains and some without. It makes for a better division of labour.
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Brain Division Labor
To those who does not know the world is on fire, I have nothing to say.
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Fire Nothing World
The worst illiterate is the political illiterate. He hears nothing, sees nothing, takes no part in political life. He doesn’t seem to know that the cost of living, the price of beans, of flour, of rent, of medicines all depend on political decisions.
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Children Hate Ignorance
Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.
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Death Fear Life
When something seems ‘the most obvious thing in the world’ it means that any attempt to understand the world has been given up.
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Mean World
You can make a fresh start with your final breath.
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Breaths Finals Fresh Start
None will improve your lot If you yourself do not.
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Inspirational Life Motivational
A good soldier has his heart and soul in it. When he receives an order, he gets a hard on, and when he drives his lance through his enemy’s guts, he comes.
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Art Heart Order Philosophy
Art is not a mirror. Art is a hammer.
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Art Hammers Mirrors
When you name yourself, you always name another.
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Always Another Names
The rain Never falls upwards. When the wound Stops hurting What hurts is The scar.
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Fall Hurt Rain
It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk.
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Banker Clerk Fog
People cannot remain good unless good is expected of them.
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Expected Good People Remain
The war which is coming Is not the first one. There were Other wars before it. When the last one came to an end There were conquerors and conquered. Among the conquered the common people Starved. Among the conquerors The common people starved too.
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Lasts People War
What rapture, oh, it is to know A good thing when you see it And having seen a good thing, oh, What rapture ’tis to flee it.
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Good Knows Rapture Things
Suppose they gave a war, and nobody came? Why then, the war would come to you!
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Politics Suppose War

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