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When the house of a great one collapses Many little ones are slain.

Bertolt Brecht

Only bad generals need heroes.
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General Hero Needs
For once you must try not to shirk the facts: mankind is kept alive by bestial acts.
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Alive Sex Trying
Realist writing, of which history offers many widely varying examples, is likewise conditioned by the question of how, when and for what class it is made use of.
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Condition Example Made Realist
Love is also like a coconut which is good while it is fresh, but you have to spit it out when the juice is gone, what’s left tastes bitter.
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Gone Love Sad Taste
You don’t need to pray to God any more when there are storms in the sky, but you do have to be insured.
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God Sky Storm
Don’t be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.
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Anticipation Death Life
The fanatics for progress often have too little appreciation of the existing.
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Appreciation Littles Progress
A theater without beer is just a museum
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Beer Museums Theater
What kind of times are they, when A talk about trees is almost a crime Because it implies silence about so many horrors?
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Kind Silence Tree
It was never decreed that a god mustn’t pay hotel bills.
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Bills Hotel Pay
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
It’s never too late for those whose time has come.
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Come Late never Too
There are some with brains and some without. It makes for a better division of labour.
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Brain Division Labor
Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.
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Death Fear Life
Love is the wish to give, not to receive.
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Giving Love Wish
He who is still laughing is he who hasn’t heard the terrible news.
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Laughing News Terrible

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