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Why be a man when you can be a success?

Bertolt Brecht

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
People who fight may lose. People who do not fight have already lost.
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Fighting May People
Mixing one’s wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.
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Mistake Wine Wisdom
One must live well to know what living is.
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Knows Live Must Well
It’s never too late for those whose time has come.
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Come Late never Too
Fearful is the seductive power of goodness.
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Fearful Goodness Seductive
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
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
Of all the works of man I like best Those which have been used. The copper pots with their dents and flattened edges The knives and forks whose wooden handles Have been worn away by many hands: such forms Seemed to me the noblest.
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Approaching Folk Hands Knives Men
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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Men Real Screen Voice
It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk.
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Banker Clerk Fog
You can’t write poems about trees when the woods are full of policemen.
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Tree Wood Writing
Impact lies in the vicinity of mistakes.
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Impact Lying Mistakes
The righteous one has no sense of humor.
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Humor One Righteous Sense
When the praying does no good, insurance does help.
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Helping Insurance Praying
Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes.
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Happiness Hero Land

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