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Why be a man when you can be a success?

Bertolt Brecht

All the gang of those who rule us Hope our quarrels never stop Helping them to split and fool us So they can remain on top.
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Fool Government Splits
Fearful is the seductive power of goodness.
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Fearful Goodness Seductive
It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk.
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Banker Clerk Fog
Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods.
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Reality Taken Writing
I don’t like where I’m going and I don’t like where I’ve been. Why am I in a hurry?
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Going Hurry Like
General, your tank is a powerful vehicle it smashes down forests and crushes a hundred men. but it has one defect: it needs a driver.
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Crush Men Powerful
It was never decreed that a god mustn’t pay hotel bills.
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Bills Hotel Pay
The right to happiness is fundamental; men live so little time and die alone.
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Alone Happiness Joy Men
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
When you name yourself, you always name another.
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Always Another Names
It is not enough to demand insight and informative images of reality from the theater. Our theater must stimulate a desire for understanding, a delight in changing reality.
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Desire Reality Understanding
Schoenberg is too melodious for me, too sweet.
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Musical Schoenberg Sweet
Suppose they gave a war, and nobody came? Why then, the war would come to you!
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Politics Suppose War
If you wan to steal money, don’t rob a bank – open one.
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Money One Open Stealing
People remain what they are even if their faces fall apart.
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Faces Fall People
There are times when you have to choose between being human and having good taste.
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Being Good Human Nature Taste

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