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The mill wheel turns, it turns forever, though what is uppermost remains not so.

Bertolt Brecht

When the wound/ No longer hurts/ The scar does.
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Doe Hurt Scar
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 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
The human race tends to remember the abuses to which it has been subjected rather than the endearments. What’s left of kisses? Wounds, however, leave scars.
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Abuse Kissing Race
What a miserable thing life is: you’re in clover; only the clover isn’t good enough.
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Gratitude Life Sadness
Things take indeed a wondrous turn When learned men do stoop to learn.
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Men Scholarship Turns
Right is its own defense.
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Defense Literature Own Right
Everyone needs help from everyone.
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Collaboration Helping Needs
In the contradiction lies the hope.
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Contradiction Hope Lying
To live means to finesse the processes to which one is subjugated.
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Finesse Mean Process
For the task assigned them Men aren’t smart enough or sly Any rogue can blind them With a clever lie.
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Clever Lying Smart
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
When the leaders speak of peace, the common folk know war is coming.
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Common Folk Leader War
If you don’t have fun, you don’t have a show.
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Fun Inspirational Shows
…it is simplicity that is difficult to make.
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Design Difficult Simplicity Software
A man who strains himself on the stage is bound, if he is any good, to strain all the people sitting in the stalls.
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Acting Men People

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