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What kind of times are they, when A talk about trees is almost a crime Because it implies silence about so many horrors?

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
Mixing one’s wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.
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Mistake Wine Wisdom
Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.
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Mistake Moving Wisdom
Who fights may lose, but who does not fight has lost already.
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Already Fighting May
It isn’t important to come out on top, what matters is to be the one who comes out alive.
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Acceptance Important Matters
Even hatred of vileness Distorts a mans features.
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Features Hatred
The rain Never falls upwards. When the wound Stops hurting What hurts is The scar.
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Fall Hurt Rain
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
It was never decreed that a god mustn’t pay hotel bills.
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Bills Hotel Pay
Who built the seven gates of Thebes? In the books are listed the names of kings. Did the kings heave up the building blocks?
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Block Book Kings
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
If you fight you might lose, if you don’t you have already lost.
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Fighting Lost
Something ignoble, loathsome, undignified attends all associations between people and has been transferred to all objects, dwelling, tools, even the landscape itself.
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Dwelling Object People Tool
It’s never too late for those whose time has come.
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Come Late never Too
What a miserable thing life is: you’re in clover; only the clover isn’t good enough.
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Gratitude Life Sadness
Never believe on faith, see for yourself! What you yourself don’t learn you don’t know.
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Believe Knows Learn

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