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

Bertolt Brecht

Young Alexander conquered India. He alone? Caesar beat the Gauls. Was there not even a cook in his army? Philip of Spain wept as his fleet was sunk and destroyed. Were there no other tears? Frederick the Great triumphed in the Seven Years War. Who Triumphed with him?
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Army War Years
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
For once you must try not to shirk the facts: mankind is kept alive by bestial acts.
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Alive Sex Trying
To live means to finesse the processes to which one is subjugated.
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Finesse Mean Process
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
If you fight you might lose, if you don’t you have already lost.
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Fighting Lost
When evil-doing comes like falling rain, nobody calls out “stop!” When crimes begin to pile up they become invisible. When sufferings become unendurable the cries are no longer heard. The cries, too, fall like rain in summer.
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Become Doing Evil Invisible Suffering
Poverty makes you wise but it’s a curse.
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Curse Poverty Wise
Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must also change. Nothing comes from nothing; the new comes from the old, but that is why it is new.
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Change Nothing Reality Representation
People who understand everything get no stories.
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People Stories Understand
First the grub, then the morals.
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Firsts Miscellaneous Moral
When the leaders speak of peace, the common folk know war is coming.
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Common Folk Leader War
When the leaders speak of peace The common folk know That war is coming When the leaders curse war
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Common Folk Lying War
Who struggles can fail. Who doesn’t struggle has already failed!
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Diversity Justice Struggle
When the house of a great one collapses Many little ones are slain.
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Collapse House Littles
It’s all right to hesitate if you then go ahead.
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Ahead Literature Travel

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