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If you fight you might lose, if you don’t you have already lost.

Bertolt Brecht

In the dark times Will there also be singing? Yes, there will also be singing. About the dark times.
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Dark Inspirational Singing
If you fight you might lose, if you don’t you have already lost.
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Fighting Lost
Recently my fingers have developed a prejudice against comparatives. They all follow this pattern: a squirrel is smaller than a tree; a bird is more musical than a tree.
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Bird Perspective Squirrels
He who speaks of enemies , himself is the enemy.
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Enemy Himself Speak
What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank?
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Founding Funny Money Robbing
There must always be some who are brighter and some who are stupider, the latter make up for it by being better workers.
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Latter Stupidity Workers
Love is also like a coconut which is good while it is fresh, but you have to spit it out when the juice is gone, what’s left tastes bitter.
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Gone Love Sad Taste
When the house of a great one collapses Many little ones are slain.
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Collapse House Littles
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
People cannot remain good unless good is expected of them.
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Expected Good People Remain
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
When you name yourself, you always name another.
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Always Another Names
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
First the grub, then the morals.
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Firsts Miscellaneous Moral
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
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

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