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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.

Bertolt Brecht

No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.
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Demand Literature Long
What rapture, oh, it is to know A good thing when you see it And having seen a good thing, oh, What rapture ’tis to flee it.
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Good Knows Rapture Things
He who fights, can lose. He who doesn’t fight, has already lost.
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Fighting Loses Lost
The storm that bends the birch trees Is held to be violent But how about the storm That bends the backs of the roadworkers?
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Storm Tree Violent
Come in, dear wind, and be our guest You too have neither home nor rest.
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Guest Home Wind
Suppose they gave a war, and nobody came? Why then, the war would come to you!
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Politics Suppose War
What a miserable thing life is: you’re in clover; only the clover isn’t good enough.
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Gratitude Life Sadness
The finest plans are always ruined by the littleness of those who ought to carry them out, for emperor himself can actually be nothing.
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Emperor Finest Ruined
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
From the start it has been the theatre’s business to entertain people … it needs no other passport than fun.
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Fun People Theatre
You can make a fresh start with your final breath.
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Breaths Finals Fresh Start
When the leaders speak of peace, the common folk know war is coming.
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Common Folk Leader War
If you join the rat race — you’re in the race of rats.
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Join Race Rat
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
The fate of man is man.
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Fate Men Trust
We attacked a foreign people and treated them like rebels. As you know, it’s all right to treat barbarians barbarically. It’s the desire to be barbaric that makes governments call their enemies barbarians.
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Government People War

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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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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