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…it is simplicity that is difficult to make.

Bertolt Brecht

There are some with brains and some without. It makes for a better division of labour.
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Brain Division Labor
Oh! Moon of Alabama We now must say good-bye We’ve lost our good old mama And must have whiskey Oh, you know why!
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Alabama Bye Moon
People remain what they are even if their faces fall apart.
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Faces Fall People
Erst kommt das Fressen, dann kommt die Moral.
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Anger Dies Moral
Unfortunate the country that needs heroes!
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Country Hero Needs
Even hatred of vileness Distorts a mans features.
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Features Hatred
Things take indeed a wondrous turn When learned men do stoop to learn.
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Men Scholarship Turns
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
To live means to finesse the processes to which one is subjugated.
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Finesse Mean Process
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
There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.
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Leadership Numbers Two
War is like love, it always finds a way.
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Life Love Military
Sometimes it’s more important to be human, than to have good taste.
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Important Sometimes Taste
Those who take the most from the table, teach contentment. Those for whom the taxes are destined, demand sacrifice. Those who eat their fill, speak to the hungry, of wonderful times to come. Those who lead the country into the abyss, call ruling difficult, for ordinary folk.
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Contentment Country Sacrifice
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
Eats first, morals after.
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Eat Firsts Moral

…it is simplicity that is difficult to make.

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…it is simplicity that is difficult to make.

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