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

Bertolt Brecht

General, your bomber is powerful. It flies faster than a storm and carries more than an elephant. But it has one defect: It needs a mechanic. General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.
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Bother Carries Defect Faster General Man Storm
The man who laughs has simply not yet had the terrible news.
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Laughing Laughter Men
What’s a joy to the one is a nightmare to the other.
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Joy Nightmare One Other
It was never decreed that a god mustn’t pay hotel bills.
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Bills Hotel Pay
Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes.
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Happiness Hero Land
Who fights may lose, but who does not fight has lost already.
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Already Fighting May
What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?
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Cheesy Funny Gone Good Morning
The storm that bends the birch trees Is held to be violent But how about the storm That bends the backs of the roadworkers?
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Storm Tree Violent
The rain Never falls upwards. When the wound Stops hurting What hurts is The scar.
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Fall Hurt Rain
Unhappiness doesn’t grow on the chest like leprosy. Poverty won’t fall off the roof like a loose tile, no; poverty and unhappiness are man’s doing.
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Fall Men Tiles
People remain what they are even if their faces fall apart.
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Faces Fall People
The mobilization order is already written out. Every day, to earn my daily bread I go to the market where lies are bought Hopefully I take up my place among the sellers.
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Eran Hopefully Mobilization Out Place Seller Written
For once you must try not to shirk the facts: mankind is kept alive by bestial acts.
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Alive Sex Trying
You can make a fresh start with your final breath.
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Breaths Finals Fresh Start
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
Little changes are the enemies of great changes.
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Change Enemy Littles

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