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It’s never too late for those whose time has come.

Bertolt Brecht

What they could do with ’round here is a good war. What else can you expect with peace running wild all over the place? You know what the trouble with peace is? No organization.
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Peace Running War
Each of us is the strongest one in his or her own skin. Characteristics should take off their hats to one another, instead of spitting in each other’s faces.
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Characteristics Each Face Spitting
It’s all right to hesitate if you then go ahead.
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Ahead Literature Travel
No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.
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Demand Literature Long
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
You may proclaim, good sirs, your fine philosophy But till you feed us, right and wrong can wait!
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May Philosophy Waiting
There must always be some who are brighter and some who are stupider, the latter make up for it by being better workers.
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Latter Stupidity Workers
For once you must try not to shirk the facts: mankind is kept alive by bestial acts.
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Alive Sex Trying
To those who does not know the world is on fire, I have nothing to say.
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Fire Nothing World
The fanatics for progress often have too little appreciation of the existing.
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Appreciation Littles Progress
Impact lies in the vicinity of mistakes.
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Impact Lying Mistakes
It was never decreed that a god mustn’t pay hotel bills.
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Bills Hotel Pay
Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.
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Poverty Wells Wise
For time flows on, and if it did not, it would be a bad prospect for those who do not sit at golden tables.
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Order Reality Tables
People cannot remain good unless good is expected of them.
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Expected Good People Remain
Show them the red tail of a comet, fill them with black terror, and they will all come running out of their houses and break their legs. But tell them one sensible proposition, and support it with seven reasons, and they will simply laugh in your face.
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Black Proposition Running Sensible Show Support

It’s never too late for those whose time has come.

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