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The rain Never falls upwards. When the wound Stops hurting What hurts is The scar.

Bertolt Brecht

The more innocent they are, the more they deserve to be shot.
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Deserve Innocent Shots
Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.
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Art Mirror Reality
People who understand everything get no stories.
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People Stories Understand
When you name yourself, you always name another.
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Always Another Names
Terrible is the temptation to be good.
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Be Good Temptation Terrible
If art reflects life, it does so with special mirrors.
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Art Mirrors Special
Go make yourself a plan And be a shining light. Then make yourself a second plan, For neither will come right.
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Light Planning Shining
Why be a man when you can be a success?
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Inspirational Life Motivational
Right is its own defense.
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Defense Literature Own Right
A man who sees another man on the street corner with only a stump for an arm will be so shocked the first time he’ll give him sixpence. But the second time it’ll only be a three penny bit. And if he sees him a third time, he’ll have him cold-bloodedly handed over to the police.
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Giving Men Police Six Street Time
We often do not know ourselves the grounds On which we act, though plain to others.
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Ground Knows Others Ourselves
What they could do with ’round here is a good war. What else can you expect with peace running wild all over the place? You know what the trouble with peace is? No organization.
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Peace Running War
Who built the seven gates of Thebes? In the books are listed the names of kings. Did the kings heave up the building blocks?
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Block Book Kings
Today every invention is received with a cry of triumph which soon turns into a cry of fear.
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Fear Today Triumph
Love is also like a coconut which is good while it is fresh, but you have to spit it out when the juice is gone, what’s left tastes bitter.
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Gone Love Sad Taste
The first time it was reported that our friends were being butchered there was a cry of horror. Then a hundred were butchered. But when a thousand were butchered and there was no end to the butchery, a blanket of silence spread.
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The rain Never falls upwards. When the wound Stops hurting What hurts is The scar.

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