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Go make yourself a plan And be a shining light. Then make yourself a second plan, For neither will come right.

Bertolt Brecht

…it is simplicity that is difficult to make.
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Design Difficult Simplicity Software
What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?
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Cheesy Funny Gone Good Morning
Come in, dear wind, and be our guest You too have neither home nor rest.
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Guest Home Wind
Oh why do we not say the important things, it would be so easy, and we are damned because we do not.
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Dammed Easy Important
Alas,we who wanted kindness, could not be kind ourselves.
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Be Kind Kindness Wanted
In the contradiction lies the hope.
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Contradiction Hope Lying
Sometimes it’s more important to be human, than to have good taste.
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Important Sometimes Taste
Recently my fingers have developed a prejudice against comparatives. They all follow this pattern: a squirrel is smaller than a tree; a bird is more musical than a tree.
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Bird Perspective Squirrels
To those who does not know the world is on fire, I have nothing to say.
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Fire Nothing World
The righteous one has no sense of humor.
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Humor One Righteous Sense
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
Grub first, then ethics.
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Cooking First Food
Poverty makes you wise but it’s a curse.
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Curse Poverty Wise
There are men who struggle for a day and they are good. There are men who struggle for a year and they are better. There are men who struggle many years, and they are better still. But there are those who struggle all their lives: These are the indispensable ones.
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Men Struggle Years
Little changes are the enemies of great changes.
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Change Enemy Littles
I was called up in the war and sent to a hospital. I dressed wounds, applied iodine, gave enemas, did blood transfusions. If the doctor ordered: “Brecht, amputate a leg!”, I would reply, “Certainly, Your Excellency!”, and cut off the leg. If I was told, “Perform a trepanning!”
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Cutting Men Transfusion War

Go make yourself a plan And be a shining light. Then make yourself a second plan, For neither will come right.

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