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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.

Bertolt Brecht

People remain what they are even if their faces fall apart.
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Faces Fall People
The finest plans have always been spoiled by the littleness of them that should carry them out. Even emperors can’t do it all by themselves.
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Finest Spoil
Show them the red tail of a comet, fill them with black terror, and they will all come running out of their houses and break their legs. But tell them one sensible proposition, and support it with seven reasons, and they will simply laugh in your face.
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Black Proposition Running Sensible Show Support
Temptation to behave is terrible.
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Literature Temptation Terrible
Who has good luck is good, Who has bad luck is bad.
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Bad Good Luck
Bank robbery is an initiative of amateurs. True professionals establish a bank.
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Bank Initiative Robbery
What rapture, oh, it is to know A good thing when you see it And having seen a good thing, oh, What rapture ’tis to flee it.
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Good Knows Rapture Things
As regards obstacles, the shortest distance between two points can be a curve.
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Curves Distance Two
You can’t write poems about trees when the woods are full of policemen.
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Tree Wood Writing
When the leaders speak of peace, the common folk know war is coming.
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Common Folk Leader War
General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.
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Defect Men Thinking
The finest plans are always ruined by the littleness of those who ought to carry them out, for emperor himself can actually be nothing.
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Emperor Finest Ruined
It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk.
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Banker Clerk Fog
People who understand everything get no stories.
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People Stories Understand
Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
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Change Moving Stay Strong
Mixing one’s wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.
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Mistake Wine Wisdom

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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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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