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Unfortunate the country that needs heroes!

Bertolt Brecht

You may proclaim, good sirs, your fine philosophy But till you feed us, right and wrong can wait!
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May Philosophy Waiting
Firebugs dragging their gasoline bottles are approaching the Academy of Arts, with a grin. And so, instead of embracing them, let us demand the freedom of the elbow to knock the bottles out of their filthy hands.
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Art Embrace Hands War
I Who live in Los Angeles and not in London Find, on thinking about Hell, that it must be Still more like Los Angeles.
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About Country Live Place
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
The righteous one has no sense of humor.
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Humor One Righteous Sense
Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.
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Art Mirror Reality
He who speaks of enemies , himself is the enemy.
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Enemy Himself Speak
No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.
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Demand Literature Long
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
On thinking about Hell, I gather My brother Shelley found it was a place Much like the city of London.
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Brother Cities Thinking
Mixing one’s wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.
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Mistake Wine Wisdom
It was never decreed that a god mustn’t pay hotel bills.
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Bills Hotel Pay
Life is short and so is money.
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Cute Life Money Short
It’s all right to hesitate if you then go ahead.
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Ahead Literature Travel
Art is not a mirror. Art is a hammer.
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Art Hammers Mirrors
Of all the works of man I like best Those which have been used. The copper pots with their dents and flattened edges The knives and forks whose wooden handles Have been worn away by many hands: such forms Seemed to me the noblest.
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Approaching Folk Hands Knives Men

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