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People who fight may lose. People who do not fight have already lost.

Bertolt Brecht

As regards obstacles, the shortest distance between two points can be a curve.
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Curves Distance Two
Terrible is the temptation to be good.
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Be Good Temptation Terrible
When evil-doing comes like falling rain, nobody calls out “stop!” When crimes begin to pile up they become invisible. When sufferings become unendurable the cries are no longer heard. The cries, too, fall like rain in summer.
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Become Doing Evil Invisible Suffering
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
In my view, the great and complicated things that go on in the world cannot be adequately recognized by people who do not use every possible aid to understanding.
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Adequately Great Recognized Understanding
Don’t tell me peace has broken out.
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Broken Out Peace
The right to happiness is fundamental; men live so little time and die alone.
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Alone Happiness Joy Men
Some party hack decreed that the people had lost the government’s confidence and could only regain it with redoubled effort. If that is the case, would it not be simpler, If the government simply dissolved the people And elected another?
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Government Party People
Little changes are the enemies of great changes.
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Change Enemy Littles
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
You don’t need to pray to God any more when there are storms in the sky, but you do have to be insured.
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God Sky Storm
For once you must try not to shirk the facts: mankind is kept alive by bestial acts.
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Alive Sex Trying
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
Impact lies in the vicinity of mistakes.
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Impact Lying Mistakes
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

People who fight may lose. People who do not fight have already lost.

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