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It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk.

Bertolt Brecht

The defeats and victories of the fellows at the top aren’t always defeats and victories for the fellows at the bottom.
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Defeat Sunset Victory
The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set a limit to infinite error.
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Errors Science Wisdom
Would it not be simpler If the Government dissolved the people and elected another?
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Another Government People
What a miserable thing life is: you’re in clover; only the clover isn’t good enough.
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Gratitude Life Sadness
Little changes are the enemies of great changes.
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Change Enemy Littles
People who fight may lose. People who do not fight have already lost.
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Fighting May People
Who does Not Know the Truth, is simply a Fool… Yet who Knows the Truth and Calls it a Lie, is a Criminal.
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Criminals Doe Lying
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
Don’t be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.
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Anticipation Death Life
He who speaks of enemies , himself is the enemy.
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Enemy Himself Speak
When evil-doing comes like falling rain, nobody calls out “stop!” When crimes begin to pile up they become invisible. When sufferings become unendurable the cries are no longer heard. The cries, too, fall like rain in summer.
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Become Doing Evil Invisible Suffering
Those against politics are in favor of the politics inflicted upon them.
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Democracy Favors Freedom
You can make a fresh start with your final breath.
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Breaths Finals Fresh Start
Each of us is the strongest one in his or her own skin. Characteristics should take off their hats to one another, instead of spitting in each other’s faces.
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Characteristics Each Face Spitting
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
Then I will tell you something. I do not believe in it. Forty years among men has consistently taught me that they are not amenable to commonsense.
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Belief Men Running

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