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One forgets too easily the difference between a man and his image, and that there is none between the sound of his voice on the screen and in real life.

Bertolt Brecht

Poverty makes you wise but it’s a curse.
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Curse Poverty Wise
Unhappiness doesn’t grow on the chest like leprosy. Poverty won’t fall off the roof like a loose tile, no; poverty and unhappiness are man’s doing.
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Fall Men Tiles
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
The mill wheel turns, it turns forever, though what is uppermost remains not so.
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Forever Mills Wheels
He who speaks of enemies , himself is the enemy.
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Enemy Himself Speak
Who struggles can fail. Who doesn’t struggle has already failed!
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Diversity Justice Struggle
Let nothing be called natural In an age of bloody confusion, Ordered disorder, planned caprice, And dehumanized humanity, lest all things Be held unalterable!
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Confusion Humanity Nature
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
Some party hack decreed that the people had lost the government’s confidence and could only regain it with redoubled effort. If that is the case, would it not be simpler, If the government simply dissolved the people And elected another?
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Government Party People
He who fights, can lose. He who doesn’t fight, has already lost.
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Fighting Loses Lost
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 remain what they are even if their faces fall apart.
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Faces Fall People
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
Art and science coincide insofar as both aim to improve the lives of men and women.
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Art Fashion Mean
The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn When teachers themselves are taught to learn.
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Crazy Literature Teacher
Pleasures First look from morning’s window The rediscovered book Fascinated faces Snow, the change of the seasons
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Book Change Dog Morning

One forgets too easily the difference between a man and his image, and that there is none between the sound of his voice on the screen and in real life.

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One forgets too easily the difference between a man and his image, and that there is none between the sound of his voice on the screen and in real life.

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