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Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.

Bertolt Brecht

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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Abuse Kissing Race
One can describe the world of today to the people of today only if one describes it as capable of alteration.
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People Today World
To live means to finesse the processes to which one is subjugated.
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Finesse Mean Process
Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.
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Death Fear Life
There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.
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Leadership Numbers Two
Spring is noticed, if at all By people sitting in railway trains.
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People Sitting Spring
Writers can’t write as fast as governments make wars; because to write demands thinking.
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Thinking War Writing
We often do not know ourselves the grounds On which we act, though plain to others.
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Ground Knows Others Ourselves
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
If you fight you might lose, if you don’t you have already lost.
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Fighting Lost
Bank robbery is an initiative of amateurs. True professionals establish a bank.
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Bank Initiative Robbery
Love is the wish to give, not to receive.
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Giving Love Wish
None will improve your lot If you yourself do not.
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Inspirational Life Motivational
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
Those who have had no share in the good fortunes of the mighty Often have a share in their misfortunes.
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Fortune Good Mighty Share
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

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