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

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For the task assigned them Men aren’t smart enough or sly Any rogue can blind them With a clever lie.
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Clever Lying Smart
A man who sees another man on the street corner with only a stump for an arm will be so shocked the first time he’ll give him sixpence. But the second time it’ll only be a three penny bit. And if he sees him a third time, he’ll have him cold-bloodedly handed over to the police.
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Giving Men Police Six Street Time
Art is not a mirror. Art is a hammer.
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Art Hammers Mirrors
Whenever there are great virtues, it’s a sure sign something’s wrong.
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Great Something Virtue Wrong
Nowadays, anyone who wishes to combat lies and ignorance and to write the truth must overcome at least five difficulties.
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Lying Running Writing
For what’s the use of talking with a man who has a disease and thinks about the stars?
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Men Stars Thinking
Who struggles can fail. Who doesn’t struggle has already failed!
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Diversity Justice Struggle
Impact lies in the vicinity of mistakes.
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Impact Lying Mistakes
Pleasures First look from morning’s window The rediscovered book Fascinated faces Snow, the change of the seasons
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Book Change Dog Morning
War is like love, it always finds a way.
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Life Love Military
The war which is coming Is not the first one. There were Other wars before it. When the last one came to an end There were conquerors and conquered. Among the conquered the common people Starved. Among the conquerors The common people starved too.
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Lasts People War
The more innocent they are, the more they deserve to be shot.
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Deserve Innocent Shots
Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must change.
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Order Reality Representation
General, your tank is a powerful vehicle it smashes down forests and crushes a hundred men. but it has one defect: it needs a driver.
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Crush Men Powerful
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
…it is simplicity that is difficult to make.
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Design Difficult Simplicity Software
Who fights may lose, but who does not fight has lost already.
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Already Fighting May
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
Life is short and so is money.
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Cute Life Money Short
Their peace and their war Are like wind and storm. War grows from their peace.
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Peace Storm War Wind
The righteous one has no sense of humor.
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Humor One Righteous Sense
From the cradle to the coffin underwear comes first.
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Clean Coffins Literature Underwear
All artforms are in the service of the greatest of all arts: the art of living.
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Art Living Service
Even the most blockheaded bureaucrat, provided he loves peace, is a greater lover of the arts than any so-called art-lover who loves the arts of war.
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Even Greater Love Lover Peace Provided War
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
The defeats and victories of the fellows at the top aren’t always defeats and victories for the fellows at the bottom.
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Defeat Sunset Victory
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

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

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