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Writers can’t write as fast as governments make wars; because to write demands thinking.

Bertolt Brecht

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
Then I will tell you something. I do not believe in it. Forty years among men has consistently taught me that they are not amenable to commonsense.
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Belief Men Running
When the praying does no good, insurance does help.
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Helping Insurance Praying
If you wan to steal money, don’t rob a bank – open one.
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Money One Open Stealing
What rapture, oh, it is to know A good thing when you see it And having seen a good thing, oh, What rapture ’tis to flee it.
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Good Knows Rapture Things
When the house of a great one collapses Many little ones are slain.
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Collapse House Littles
You can make a fresh start with your final breath.
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Breaths Finals Fresh Start
People cannot remain good unless good is expected of them.
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Expected Good People Remain
I don’t trust him. We’re friends.
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Friendship Negative Trust
I opened the man’s skull and messed about with his brains. I saw how they patched fellows up, so as to cart them back to the Front as quickly as they could.
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Brains Cart Front Patch Skull
We attacked a foreign people and treated them like rebels. As you know, it’s all right to treat barbarians barbarically. It’s the desire to be barbaric that makes governments call their enemies barbarians.
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Government People War
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 you name yourself, you always name another.
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Always Another Names
Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.
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Mistake Moving Wisdom
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
Life is short and so is money.
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Cute Life Money Short

Writers can’t write as fast as governments make wars; because to write demands thinking.

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