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

Bertolt Brecht

No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.
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Demand Literature Long
The mill wheel turns, it turns forever, though what is uppermost remains not so.
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Forever Mills Wheels
There are a few things that’ll move people to pity, a few, but the trouble is, when they’ve been used several times, they no longer work.
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Moving People Trouble
One cannot be arraigned for declaring a war, which every ruler has to do once in a while, but only for running a war badly.
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Declaring Running War
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
You can make a fresh start with your final breath.
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Breaths Finals Fresh Start
It was never decreed that a god mustn’t pay hotel bills.
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Bills Hotel Pay
Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.
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Art Mirror Reality
But something’s missing.
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Lot Missing Something
Unhappiness doesn’t grow on the chest like leprosy. Poverty won’t fall off the roof like a loose tile, no; poverty and unhappiness are man’s doing.
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Fall Men Tiles
Oh why do we not say the important things, it would be so easy, and we are damned because we do not.
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Dammed Easy Important
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
I don’t trust him. We’re friends.
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Friendship Negative Trust
We often do not know ourselves the grounds On which we act, though plain to others.
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Ground Knows Others Ourselves
Today every invention is received with a cry of triumph which soon turns into a cry of fear.
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Fear Today Triumph
Love is the wish to give, not to receive.
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Giving Love Wish

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