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

Bertolt Brecht

For once you must try not to shirk the facts: mankind is kept alive by bestial acts.
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Alive Sex Trying
I opened the man’s skull and messed about with his brains. I saw how they patched fellows up, so as to cart them back to the Front as quickly as they could.
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Brains Cart Front Patch Skull
The rain Never falls upwards. When the wound Stops hurting What hurts is The scar.
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Fall Hurt Rain
Impact lies in the vicinity of mistakes.
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Impact Lying Mistakes
Their peace and their war Are like wind and storm. War grows from their peace.
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Peace Storm War Wind
The finest plans are always ruined by the littleness of those who ought to carry them out, for emperor himself can actually be nothing.
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Emperor Finest Ruined
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
It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk.
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Banker Clerk Fog
Oh! Moon of Alabama We now must say good-bye We’ve lost our good old mama And must have whiskey Oh, you know why!
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Alabama Bye Moon
To those who does not know the world is on fire, I have nothing to say.
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Fire Nothing World
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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Fall Rain Summer
Alas,we who wanted kindness, could not be kind ourselves.
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Be Kind Kindness Wanted
Never believe on faith, see for yourself! What you yourself don’t learn you don’t know.
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Believe Knows Learn
One cannot be arraigned for declaring a war, which every ruler has to do once in a while, but only for running a war badly.
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Declaring Running War
Whenever there are great virtues, it’s a sure sign something’s wrong.
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Great Something Virtue Wrong
To live means to finesse the processes to which one is subjugated.
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Finesse Mean Process

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

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