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For the task assigned them Men aren’t smart enough or sly Any rogue can blind them With a clever lie.

Bertolt Brecht

The righteous one has no sense of humor.
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Humor One Righteous Sense
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
Suppose they gave a war, and nobody came? Why then, the war would come to you!
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Politics Suppose War
He who speaks of enemies , himself is the enemy.
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Enemy Himself Speak
Something ignoble, loathsome, undignified attends all associations between people and has been transferred to all objects, dwelling, tools, even the landscape itself.
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Dwelling Object People Tool
For art to be ‘unpolitical’ means only to ally itself with the ‘ruling’ group.
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Allies Art Mean
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
It’s never too late for those whose time has come.
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Come Late never Too
Terrible is the temptation to be good.
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Be Good Temptation Terrible
When the house of a great one collapses Many little ones are slain.
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Collapse House Littles
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
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
When you name yourself, you always name another.
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Always Another Names
I don’t trust him. We’re friends.
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Friendship Negative Trust
People are too durable, that’s their main trouble. They can do too much to themselves, they last too long.
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Long People Silly
Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
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Change Moving Stay Strong

For the task assigned them Men aren’t smart enough or sly Any rogue can blind them With a clever lie.

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