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The defeats and victories of the fellows at the top aren’t always defeats and victories for the fellows at the bottom.

Bertolt Brecht

Fearful is the seductive power of goodness.
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Fearful Goodness Seductive
Even hatred of vileness Distorts a mans features.
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Features Hatred
There are times when you have to choose between being human and having good taste.
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Being Good Human Nature Taste
Who struggles can fail. Who doesn’t struggle has already failed!
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Diversity Justice Struggle
The right to happiness is fundamental; men live so little time and die alone.
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Alone Happiness Joy Men
Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.
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Mistake Moving Wisdom
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
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
General, your bomber is powerful. It flies faster than a storm and carries more than an elephant. But it has one defect: It needs a mechanic. General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.
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Bother Carries Defect Faster General Man Storm
In the contradiction lies the hope.
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Contradiction Hope Lying
What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank?
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Founding Funny Money Robbing
Love is the wish to give, not to receive.
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Giving Love Wish
Terrible is the temptation to be good.
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Be Good Temptation Terrible
Art is not a mirror. Art is a hammer.
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Art Hammers Mirrors
…it is simplicity that is difficult to make.
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Design Difficult Simplicity Software
Young Alexander conquered India. He alone? Caesar beat the Gauls. Was there not even a cook in his army? Philip of Spain wept as his fleet was sunk and destroyed. Were there no other tears? Frederick the Great triumphed in the Seven Years War. Who Triumphed with him?
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Army War Years

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