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The headlong stream is termed violent But the river bed hemming it in is Termed violent by no one.

Bertolt Brecht

A good soldier has his heart and soul in it. When he receives an order, he gets a hard on, and when he drives his lance through his enemy’s guts, he comes.
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Art Heart Order Philosophy
People cannot remain good unless good is expected of them.
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Expected Good People Remain
Right is its own defense.
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Defense Literature Own Right
Unfortunate the country that needs heroes!
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Country Hero Needs
Who does Not Know the Truth, is simply a Fool… Yet who Knows the Truth and Calls it a Lie, is a Criminal.
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Criminals Doe Lying
If you fight you might lose, if you don’t you have already lost.
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Fighting Lost
Art and science coincide insofar as both aim to improve the lives of men and women.
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Art Fashion Mean
The finest plans have always been spoiled by the littleness of them that should carry them out. Even emperors can’t do it all by themselves.
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Finest Spoil
In my view, the great and complicated things that go on in the world cannot be adequately recognized by people who do not use every possible aid to understanding.
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Adequately Great Recognized Understanding
With drooping shoulders The majority sit hunched, their foreheads furrowed like Stony ground that has been repeatedly ploughed-up to no purpose.
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Majority Purpose Shoulders
Life is short and so is money.
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Cute Life Money Short
It’s all right to hesitate if you then go ahead.
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Ahead Literature Travel
The first time it was reported that our friends were being butchered there was a cry of horror. Then a hundred were butchered. But when a thousand were butchered and there was no end to the butchery, a blanket of silence spread.
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Fall Rain Summer
Writers can’t write as fast as governments make wars; because to write demands thinking.
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Thinking War Writing
Whenever there are great virtues, it’s a sure sign something’s wrong.
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Great Something Virtue Wrong
Suppose they gave a war, and nobody came? Why then, the war would come to you!
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Politics Suppose War

The headlong stream is termed violent But the river bed hemming it in is Termed violent by no one.

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