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The finest plans are always ruined by the littleness of those who ought to carry them out, for emperor himself can actually be nothing.

Bertolt Brecht

Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon.
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Book Men Weapons
But something’s missing.
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Lot Missing Something
Schoenberg is too melodious for me, too sweet.
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Musical Schoenberg Sweet
He who is still laughing is he who hasn’t heard the terrible news.
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Laughing News Terrible
Grub first, then ethics.
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Cooking First Food
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
Spring is noticed, if at all By people sitting in railway trains.
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People Sitting Spring
On thinking about Hell, I gather My brother Shelley found it was a place Much like the city of London.
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Brother Cities Thinking
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
Our audience must experience not only the ways to free Prometheus, but be schooled in the very desire to free him. Theater must teach all the pleasures and joys of discovery, all the feelings of triumph associated with liberation.
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Audience Discovery Experience Joy Pleasure Schooled
For the task assigned them Men aren’t smart enough or sly Any rogue can blind them With a clever lie.
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Clever Lying Smart
In my view, the great and complicated things that go on in the world cannot be adequately recognized by people who do not use every possible aid to understanding.
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Adequately Great Recognized Understanding
Mixing one’s wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.
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Mistake Wine Wisdom
Poverty makes you wise but it’s a curse.
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Curse Poverty Wise
Love is also like a coconut which is good while it is fresh, but you have to spit it out when the juice is gone, what’s left tastes bitter.
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Gone Love Sad Taste
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

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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