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You don’t need to pray to God any more when there are storms in the sky, but you do have to be insured.

Bertolt Brecht

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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Men Struggle Years
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
Even the most blockheaded bureaucrat, provided he loves peace, is a greater lover of the arts than any so-called art-lover who loves the arts of war.
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Even Greater Love Lover Peace Provided War
Who has good luck is good, Who has bad luck is bad.
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Bad Good Luck
For art to be ‘unpolitical’ means only to ally itself with the ‘ruling’ group.
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Allies Art Mean
Right is its own defense.
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Defense Literature Own Right
Art is not a mirror. Art is a hammer.
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Art Hammers Mirrors
As regards obstacles, the shortest distance between two points can be a curve.
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Curves Distance Two
The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn When teachers themselves are taught to learn.
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Crazy Literature Teacher
Boy Meets Girl, So What?
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Boys Broken Girl Heart
Let nothing be called natural In an age of bloody confusion, Ordered disorder, planned caprice, And dehumanized humanity, lest all things Be held unalterable!
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Confusion Humanity Nature
Show them the red tail of a comet, fill them with black terror, and they will all come running out of their houses and break their legs. But tell them one sensible proposition, and support it with seven reasons, and they will simply laugh in your face.
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Black Proposition Running Sensible Show Support
Poverty makes you wise but it’s a curse.
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Curse Poverty Wise
Temptation to behave is terrible.
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Literature Temptation Terrible
Only bad generals need heroes.
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General Hero Needs
You can’t write poems about trees when the woods are full of policemen.
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Tree Wood Writing

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