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What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank?

Bertolt Brecht

No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.
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Demand Literature Long
For once you must try not to shirk the facts: mankind is kept alive by bestial acts.
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Alive Sex Trying
…it is simplicity that is difficult to make.
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Design Difficult Simplicity Software
General, your tank is a powerful vehicle It smashes down forests and crushes a hundred men. But it has one defect: It needs a driver.
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Crush Men Powerful
Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods.
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Reality Taken Writing
Poverty makes you wise but it’s a curse.
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Curse Poverty Wise
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
I am a playwright. I show What I have seen. In the man markets I have seen how men are traded. That I show, I, the playwright.
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Men Show Traded
Whenever there are great virtues, it’s a sure sign something’s wrong.
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Great Something Virtue Wrong
From the start it has been the theatre’s business to entertain people … it needs no other passport than fun.
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Fun People Theatre
One must live well to know what living is.
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Knows Live Must Well
A man who strains himself on the stage is bound, if he is any good, to strain all the people sitting in the stalls.
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Acting Men People
Grub first, then ethics.
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Cooking First Food
Love is the wish to give, not to receive.
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Giving Love Wish
One cannot be arraigned for declaring a war, which every ruler has to do once in a while, but only for running a war badly.
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Declaring Running War
Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.
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Poverty Wells Wise

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