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First feed the face, then talk right and wrong.

Bertolt Brecht

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
Whenever there are great virtues, it’s a sure sign something’s wrong.
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Great Something Virtue Wrong
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
What a miserable thing life is: you’re in clover; only the clover isn’t good enough.
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Gratitude Life Sadness
It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk.
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Banker Clerk Fog
People remain what they are even if their faces fall apart.
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Faces Fall People
Schoenberg is too melodious for me, too sweet.
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Musical Schoenberg Sweet
There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.
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Leadership Numbers Two
No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.
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Demand Literature Long
Art and science coincide insofar as both aim to improve the lives of men and women.
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Art Fashion Mean
When the house of a great one collapses Many little ones are slain.
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Collapse House Littles
The human race tends to remember the abuses to which it has been subjected rather than the endearments. What’s left of kisses? Wounds, however, leave scars.
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Abuse Kissing Race
Something ignoble, loathsome, undignified attends all associations between people and has been transferred to all objects, dwelling, tools, even the landscape itself.
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Dwelling Object People Tool
I don’t like where I’m going and I don’t like where I’ve been. Why am I in a hurry?
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Going Hurry Like
Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes.
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Happiness Hero Land
People who fight may lose. People who do not fight have already lost.
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Fighting May People

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