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

Bertolt Brecht

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
War is like love, it always finds a way.
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Life Love Military
People who fight may lose. People who do not fight have already lost.
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Fighting May People
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
If art reflects life, it does so with special mirrors.
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Art Mirrors Special
Each of us is the strongest one in his or her own skin. Characteristics should take off their hats to one another, instead of spitting in each other’s faces.
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Characteristics Each Face Spitting
Who fights may lose, but who does not fight has lost already.
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Already Fighting May
Bank robbery is an initiative of amateurs. True professionals establish a bank.
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Bank Initiative Robbery
I’m in good form, taking no interest in things, neglecting clothes, meals, company, and feeling calm and stable as I write.
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Clothes Feelings Writing
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
If you don’t have fun, you don’t have a show.
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Fun Inspirational Shows
One must live well to know what living is.
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Knows Live Must Well
Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.
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Poverty Wells Wise
Those who have had no share in the good fortunes of the mighty Often have a share in their misfortunes.
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Fortune Good Mighty Share
The finest plans are always ruined by the littleness of those who ought to carry them out, for emperor himself can actually be nothing.
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Emperor Finest Ruined
Mixing one’s wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.
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Mistake Wine Wisdom
Eats first, morals after.
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Eat Firsts Moral
He who is still laughing is he who hasn’t heard the terrible news.
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Laughing News Terrible
What a miserable thing life is: you’re in clover; only the clover isn’t good enough.
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Gratitude Life Sadness
General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.
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Defect Men Thinking
With drooping shoulders The majority sit hunched, their foreheads furrowed like Stony ground that has been repeatedly ploughed-up to no purpose.
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Majority Purpose Shoulders
The shrill voices of those who give orders Are full of fear like the squeakings of Piglets awaiting the butcher’s knife, as their fat arses Sweat with anxiety in their office chairs…. Fear rules not only those who are ruled, but The rulers too.
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Knives Order Sweat
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
The more innocent they are, the more they deserve to be shot.
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Deserve Innocent Shots
But something’s missing.
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Lot Missing Something
A theater without beer is just a museum
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Beer Museums Theater
It’s all right to hesitate if you then go ahead.
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Ahead Literature Travel

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