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Those who have had no share in the good fortunes of the mighty Often have a share in their misfortunes.

Bertolt Brecht

Never believe on faith, see for yourself! What you yourself don’t learn you don’t know.
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Believe Knows Learn
It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk.
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Banker Clerk Fog
It isn’t important to come out on top, what matters is to be the one who comes out alive.
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Acceptance Important Matters
Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.
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Art Mirror Reality
Pleasures First look from morning’s window The rediscovered book Fascinated faces Snow, the change of the seasons
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Book Change Dog Morning
Young Alexander conquered India. He alone? Caesar beat the Gauls. Was there not even a cook in his army? Philip of Spain wept as his fleet was sunk and destroyed. Were there no other tears? Frederick the Great triumphed in the Seven Years War. Who Triumphed with him?
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Army War Years
First feed the face, then talk right and wrong.
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Faces Firsts Talk
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
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
Those who take the most from the table, teach contentment. Those for whom the taxes are destined, demand sacrifice. Those who eat their fill, speak to the hungry, of wonderful times to come. Those who lead the country into the abyss, call ruling difficult, for ordinary folk.
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Contentment Country Sacrifice
None will improve your lot If you yourself do not.
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Inspirational Life Motivational
Life is short and so is money.
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Cute Life Money Short
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 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
If you wan to steal money, don’t rob a bank – open one.
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Money One Open Stealing
The war which is coming Is not the first one. There were Other wars before it. When the last one came to an end There were conquerors and conquered. Among the conquered the common people Starved. Among the conquerors The common people starved too.
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Lasts People War

Those who have had no share in the good fortunes of the mighty Often have a share in their misfortunes.

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