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The defeats and victories of the fellows at the top aren’t always defeats and victories for the fellows at the bottom.

Bertolt Brecht

He who is still laughing is he who hasn’t heard the terrible news.
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Laughing News Terrible
You can’t write poems about trees when the woods are full of policemen.
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Tree Wood Writing
First the grub, then the morals.
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Firsts Miscellaneous Moral
The fate of man is man.
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Fate Men Trust
If you fight you might lose, if you don’t you have already lost.
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Fighting Lost
Of all the works of man I like best Those which have been used. The copper pots with their dents and flattened edges The knives and forks whose wooden handles Have been worn away by many hands: such forms Seemed to me the noblest.
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Approaching Folk Hands Knives Men
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
There are men who struggle for a day and they are good. There are men who struggle for a year and they are better. There are men who struggle many years, and they are better still. But there are those who struggle all their lives: These are the indispensable ones.
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Men Struggle Years
Who struggles can fail. Who doesn’t struggle has already failed!
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Diversity Justice Struggle
Don’t be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.
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Anticipation Death Life
Whenever there are great virtues, it’s a sure sign something’s wrong.
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Great Something Virtue Wrong
Sometimes it’s more important to be human, than to have good taste.
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Important Sometimes Taste
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
Would it not be simpler If the Government dissolved the people and elected another?
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Another Government People
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
Who has good luck is good, Who has bad luck is bad.
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Bad Good Luck

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