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Who does Not Know the Truth, is simply a Fool… Yet who Knows the Truth and Calls it a Lie, is a Criminal.

Bertolt Brecht

I don’t trust him. We’re friends.
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Friendship Negative Trust
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
The finest plans are always ruined by the littleness of those who ought to carry them out, for emperor himself can actually be nothing.
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Emperor Finest Ruined
A man who strains himself on the stage is bound, if he is any good, to strain all the people sitting in the stalls.
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Acting Men People
It’s never too late for those whose time has come.
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Come Late never Too
When crimes begin to pile up they become invisible. When sufferings become unendurable the cries are no longer heard. The cries, too, fall like rain in summer.
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Fall Rain Summer
Who struggles can fail. Who doesn’t struggle has already failed!
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Diversity Justice Struggle
…it is simplicity that is difficult to make.
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Design Difficult Simplicity Software
Only bad generals need heroes.
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General Hero Needs
Art is not a mirror. Art is a hammer.
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Art Hammers Mirrors
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
First the pork chops, then morality
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Firsts Morality Pork
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
We often do not know ourselves the grounds On which we act, though plain to others.
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Ground Knows Others Ourselves
There must always be some who are brighter and some who are stupider, the latter make up for it by being better workers.
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Latter Stupidity Workers
Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.
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Poverty Wells Wise

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