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Don’t tell me peace has broken out.

Bertolt Brecht

One forgets too easily the difference between a man and his image, and that there is none between the sound of his voice on the screen and in real life.
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Men Real Screen Voice
Don’t tell me peace has broken out.
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Broken Out Peace
If you wan to steal money, don’t rob a bank – open one.
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Money One Open Stealing
Fearful is the seductive power of goodness.
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Fearful Goodness Seductive
People are too durable, that’s their main trouble. They can do too much to themselves, they last too long.
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Long People Silly
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
You have to attack once the truth is too weak to defend itself.
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Defend Truth Weak
Poverty makes you wise but it’s a curse.
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Curse Poverty Wise
It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk.
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Banker Clerk Fog
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
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
He who fights, can lose. He who doesn’t fight, has already lost.
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Fighting Loses Lost
The fanatics for progress often have too little appreciation of the existing.
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Appreciation Littles Progress
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
Don’t be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.
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Anticipation Death Life
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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