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Bertolt Brecht

It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk.
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Banker Clerk Fog
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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Clever Lying Smart
Bank robbery is an initiative of amateurs. True professionals establish a bank.
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Bank Initiative Robbery
Never believe on faith, see for yourself! What you yourself don’t learn you don’t know.
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Believe Knows Learn
On thinking about Hell, I gather My brother Shelley found it was a place Much like the city of London.
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Brother Cities Thinking
Only bad generals need heroes.
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General Hero Needs
If you wan to steal money, don’t rob a bank – open one.
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Money One Open Stealing
If you don’t have fun, you don’t have a show.
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Fun Inspirational Shows
The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn When teachers themselves are taught to learn.
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Crazy Literature Teacher
Nowadays, anyone who wishes to combat lies and ignorance and to write the truth must overcome at least five difficulties.
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Lying Running Writing
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
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
Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.
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Art Mirror Reality
We often do not know ourselves the grounds On which we act, though plain to others.
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Ground Knows Others Ourselves
Whenever there are great virtues, it’s a sure sign something’s wrong.
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Great Something Virtue Wrong
Who struggles can fail. Who doesn’t struggle has already failed!
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Diversity Justice Struggle

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