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Their peace and their war Are like wind and storm. War grows from their peace.

Bertolt Brecht

Suppose they gave a war, and nobody came? Why then, the war would come to you!
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Politics Suppose War
The fanatics for progress often have too little appreciation of the existing.
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Appreciation Littles Progress
General, your bomber is powerful. It flies faster than a storm and carries more than an elephant. But it has one defect: It needs a mechanic. General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.
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Bother Carries Defect Faster General Man Storm
People are too durable, that’s their main trouble. They can do too much to themselves, they last too long.
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Long People Silly
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
What a miserable thing life is: you’re in clover; only the clover isn’t good enough.
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Gratitude Life Sadness
Impact lies in the vicinity of mistakes.
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Impact Lying Mistakes
The headlong stream is termed violent But the river bed hemming it in is Termed violent by no one.
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Bed Rivers Violent
Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
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Change Moving Stay Strong
When the house of a great one collapses Many little ones are slain.
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Collapse House Littles
One must live well to know what living is.
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Knows Live Must Well
Even the most blockheaded bureaucrat, provided he loves peace, is a greater lover of the arts than any so-called art-lover who loves the arts of war.
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Even Greater Love Lover Peace Provided War
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
It is not enough to demand insight and informative images of reality from the theater. Our theater must stimulate a desire for understanding, a delight in changing reality.
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Desire Reality Understanding
Would it not be simpler If the Government dissolved the people and elected another?
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Another Government People
What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?
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Cheesy Funny Gone Good Morning

Their peace and their war Are like wind and storm. War grows from their peace.

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