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

Bertolt Brecht

Who built the seven gates of Thebes? In the books are listed the names of kings. Did the kings heave up the building blocks?
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Block Book Kings
Suppose they gave a war, and nobody came? Why then, the war would come to you!
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Politics Suppose War
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
I don’t trust him. We’re friends.
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Friendship Negative Trust
…it is simplicity that is difficult to make.
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Design Difficult Simplicity Software
We often do not know ourselves the grounds On which we act, though plain to others.
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Ground Knows Others Ourselves
The first time it was reported that our friends were being butchered there was a cry of horror. Then a hundred were butchered. But when a thousand were butchered and there was no end to the butchery, a blanket of silence spread.
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Fall Rain Summer
Here today we huddle tight As the darkest heathens might The snow falls chilly on our skin The snow is forcing its way in. Hush, snow, come in with us to dwell: We were thrown out by Heaven as well.
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Fall Heaven Snow
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
Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.
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Mistake Moving Wisdom
It is not enough to demand insight and informative images of reality from the theater. Our theater must stimulate a desire for understanding, a delight in changing reality.
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Art Discovery Reality
Little changes are the enemies of great changes.
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Change Enemy Littles
It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk.
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Banker Clerk Fog
Poverty makes you wise but it’s a curse.
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Curse Poverty Wise
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
When something seems ‘the most obvious thing in the world’ it means that any attempt to understand the world has been given up.
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Mean World

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