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Suppose they gave a war, and nobody came? Why then, the war would come to you!

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
Come in, dear wind, and be our guest You too have neither home nor rest.
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Guest Home Wind
Alas,we who wanted kindness, could not be kind ourselves.
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Be Kind Kindness Wanted
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
What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?
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Cheesy Funny Gone Good Morning
In my view, the great and complicated things that go on in the world cannot be adequately recognized by people who do not use every possible aid to understanding.
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Adequately Great Recognized Understanding
To live means to finesse the processes to which one is subjugated.
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Finesse Mean Process
Realist writing, of which history offers many widely varying examples, is likewise conditioned by the question of how, when and for what class it is made use of.
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Condition Example Made Realist
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
Their peace and their war Are like wind and storm. War grows from their peace.
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Peace Storm War Wind
Only bad generals need heroes.
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General Hero Needs
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
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
Mixing one’s wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.
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Mistake Wine Wisdom
The finest plans have always been spoiled by the littleness of them that should carry them out. Even emperors can’t do it all by themselves.
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Finest Spoil
Young Alexander conquered India. He alone? Caesar beat the Gauls. Was there not even a cook in his army? Philip of Spain wept as his fleet was sunk and destroyed. Were there no other tears? Frederick the Great triumphed in the Seven Years War. Who Triumphed with him?
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