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Alas,we who wanted kindness, could not be kind ourselves.

Bertolt Brecht

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
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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Army War Years
You don’t need to pray to God any more when there are storms in the sky, but you do have to be insured.
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God Sky Storm
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
Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes.
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Happiness Hero Land
Their peace and their war Are like wind and storm. War grows from their peace.
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Peace Storm War Wind
When the wound/ No longer hurts/ The scar does.
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Doe Hurt Scar
…it is simplicity that is difficult to make.
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Design Difficult Simplicity Software
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
The fate of man is man.
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Fate Men Trust
Firebugs dragging their gasoline bottles are approaching the Academy of Arts, with a grin. And so, instead of embracing them, let us demand the freedom of the elbow to knock the bottles out of their filthy hands.
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Art Embrace Hands War
Science knows only one commandment – contribute to science.
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Account Knows Science
On thinking about Hell, I gather My brother Shelley found it was a place Much like the city of London.
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Brother Cities Thinking
As regards obstacles, the shortest distance between two points can be a curve.
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Curves Distance Two
In the contradiction lies the hope.
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Contradiction Hope Lying
Oh! Moon of Alabama We now must say good-bye We’ve lost our good old mama And must have whiskey Oh, you know why!
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Alabama Bye Moon

Alas,we who wanted kindness, could not be kind ourselves.

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