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The mill wheel turns, it turns forever, though what is uppermost remains not so.

Bertolt Brecht

There are times when you have to choose between being human and having good taste.
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Being Good Human Nature Taste
Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.
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Mistake Moving Wisdom
If art reflects life, it does so with special mirrors.
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Art Mirrors Special
What kind of times are they, when A talk about trees is almost a crime Because it implies silence about so many horrors?
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Kind Silence Tree
There are a few things that’ll move people to pity, a few, but the trouble is, when they’ve been used several times, they no longer work.
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Moving People Trouble
He who speaks of enemies , himself is the enemy.
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Enemy Himself Speak
Though the rich of this earth find no difficulty in creating misery, they can’t bear to see it.
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Bears Creating Earth
Spring is noticed, if at all By people sitting in railway trains.
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People Sitting Spring
He who is still laughing is he who hasn’t heard the terrible news.
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Laughing News Terrible
Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must also change. Nothing comes from nothing; the new comes from the old, but that is why it is new.
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Change Nothing Reality Representation
For what’s the use of talking with a man who has a disease and thinks about the stars?
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Men Stars Thinking
People are too durable, that’s their main trouble. They can do too much to themselves, they last too long.
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Long People Silly
Each of us is the strongest one in his or her own skin. Characteristics should take off their hats to one another, instead of spitting in each other’s faces.
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Characteristics Each Face Spitting
It isn’t important to come out on top, what matters is to be the one who comes out alive.
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Acceptance Important Matters
The defeats and victories of the fellows at the top aren’t always defeats and victories for the fellows at the bottom.
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Defeat Sunset Victory
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

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