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

Bertolt Brecht

Oh why do we not say the important things, it would be so easy, and we are damned because we do not.
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Dammed Easy Important
What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank?
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Founding Funny Money Robbing
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
The righteous one has no sense of humor.
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Humor One Righteous Sense
Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
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Change Moving Stay Strong
The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn When teachers themselves are taught to learn.
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Crazy Literature Teacher
Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods.
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Reality Taken Writing
Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.
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Poverty Wells Wise
He who is still laughing is he who hasn’t heard the terrible news.
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Laughing News Terrible
All the gang of those who rule us Hope our quarrels never stop Helping them to split and fool us So they can remain on top.
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Fool Government Splits
If you fight you might lose, if you don’t you have already lost.
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Fighting Lost
Never believe on faith, see for yourself! What you yourself don’t learn you don’t know.
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Believe Knows Learn
Don’t accept the habitual as a natural thing. In times of disorder, of organized confusion, of de-humanized humanity, nothing should seem natural. Nothing should seem impossible to change.
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Confusion Humanity Impossible
Only bad generals need heroes.
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General Hero Needs
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
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

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