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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.

Bertolt Brecht

The headlong stream is termed violent But the river bed hemming it in is Termed violent by no one.
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Bed Rivers Violent
One must live well to know what living is.
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Knows Live Must Well
Oh why do we not say the important things, it would be so easy, and we are damned because we do not.
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Dammed Easy Important
The mobilization order is already written out. Every day, to earn my daily bread I go to the market where lies are bought Hopefully I take up my place among the sellers.
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Eran Hopefully Mobilization Out Place Seller Written
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
You can make a fresh start with your final breath.
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Breaths Finals Fresh Start
Grub first, then ethics.
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Cooking First Food
What rapture, oh, it is to know A good thing when you see it And having seen a good thing, oh, What rapture ’tis to flee it.
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Good Knows Rapture Things
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
General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.
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Defect Men Thinking
The fanatics for progress often have too little appreciation of the existing.
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Appreciation Littles Progress
You don’t need to pray to God any more when there are storms in the sky, but you do have to be insured.
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God Sky Storm
I opened the man’s skull and messed about with his brains. I saw how they patched fellows up, so as to cart them back to the Front as quickly as they could.
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Brains Cart Front Patch Skull
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
What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank?
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Founding Funny Money Robbing
First the grub, then the morals.
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Firsts Miscellaneous Moral

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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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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