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Who does Not Know the Truth, is simply a Fool… Yet who Knows the Truth and Calls it a Lie, is a Criminal.

Bertolt Brecht

The man who laughs has simply not yet had the terrible news.
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Laughing Laughter Men
Unhappiness doesn’t grow on the chest like leprosy. Poverty won’t fall off the roof like a loose tile, no; poverty and unhappiness are man’s doing.
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Fall Men Tiles
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
Mixing one’s wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.
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Mistake Wine Wisdom
General, your tank is a powerful vehicle it smashes down forests and crushes a hundred men. but it has one defect: it needs a driver.
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Crush Men Powerful
It was never decreed that a god mustn’t pay hotel bills.
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Bills Hotel Pay
There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.
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Leadership Numbers Two
General, your tank is a powerful vehicle It smashes down forests and crushes a hundred men. But it has one defect: It needs a driver.
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Crush Men Powerful
Little changes are the enemies of great changes.
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Change Enemy Littles
Never believe on faith, see for yourself! What you yourself don’t learn you don’t know.
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Believe Knows Learn
To live means to finesse the processes to which one is subjugated.
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Finesse Mean Process
If you don’t have fun, you don’t have a show.
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Fun Inspirational Shows
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
Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.
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Mistake Moving Wisdom
If art reflects life, it does so with special mirrors.
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Art Mirrors Special
For art to be ‘unpolitical’ means only to ally itself with the ‘ruling’ group.
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Allies Art Mean

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