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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

The righteous one has no sense of humor.
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Humor One Righteous Sense
The alienation effect in German epic theater is achieved not only through the actors, but also through music (chorus and song) andsets (transparencies, film strips, etc.). Its main purpose is to place the staged events in their historical context.
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Art Epic Film History Purpose Song
None will improve your lot If you yourself do not.
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Inspirational Life Motivational
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
The headlong stream is termed violent But the river bed hemming it in is Termed violent by no one.
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Bed Rivers Violent
Terrible is the temptation to be good.
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Be Good Temptation Terrible
The man who laughs has simply not yet had the terrible news.
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Laughing Laughter Men
People who understand everything get no stories.
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People Stories Understand
Little changes are the enemies of great changes.
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Change Enemy Littles
Of all the works of man I like best Those which have been used. The copper pots with their dents and flattened edges The knives and forks whose wooden handles Have been worn away by many hands: such forms Seemed to me the noblest.
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Approaching Folk Hands Knives Men
He who fights, can lose. He who doesn’t fight, has already lost.
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Fighting Loses Lost
If you fight you might lose, if you don’t you have already lost.
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Fighting Lost
Writers can’t write as fast as governments make wars; because to write demands thinking.
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Thinking War Writing
Come in, dear wind, and be our guest You too have neither home nor rest.
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Guest Home Wind
Who does Not Know the Truth, is simply a Fool… Yet who Knows the Truth and Calls it a Lie, is a Criminal.
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Criminals Doe Lying
Sometimes it’s more important to be human, than to have good taste.
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Important Sometimes Taste

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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