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No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.

Bertolt Brecht

Bank robbery is an initiative of amateurs. True professionals establish a bank.
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Bank Initiative Robbery
There are times when you have to choose between being human and having good taste.
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Being Good Human Nature Taste
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
It’s all right to hesitate if you then go ahead.
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Ahead Literature Travel
Erst kommt das Fressen, dann kommt die Moral.
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Anger Dies Moral
The man who laughs has simply not yet had the terrible news.
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Laughing Laughter Men
I’m in good form, taking no interest in things, neglecting clothes, meals, company, and feeling calm and stable as I write.
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Clothes Feelings Writing
To those who does not know the world is on fire, I have nothing to say.
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Fire Nothing World
I was called up in the war and sent to a hospital. I dressed wounds, applied iodine, gave enemas, did blood transfusions. If the doctor ordered: “Brecht, amputate a leg!”, I would reply, “Certainly, Your Excellency!”, and cut off the leg. If I was told, “Perform a trepanning!”
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Cutting Men Transfusion War
Today every invention is received with a cry of triumph which soon turns into a cry of fear.
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Fear Today Triumph
Some party hack decreed that the people had lost the government’s confidence and could only regain it with redoubled effort. If that is the case, would it not be simpler, If the government simply dissolved the people And elected another?
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Government Party People
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
Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes.
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Happiness Hero Land
He who is still laughing is he who hasn’t heard the terrible news.
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Laughing News Terrible
Who has good luck is good, Who has bad luck is bad.
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Bad Good Luck
Spring is noticed, if at all By people sitting in railway trains.
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People Sitting Spring

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