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Would it not be simpler If the Government dissolved the people and elected another?

Bertolt Brecht

Alas,we who wanted kindness, could not be kind ourselves.
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Be Kind Kindness Wanted
No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.
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Demand Literature Long
There are some with brains and some without. It makes for a better division of labour.
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Brain Division Labor
Bank robbery is an initiative of amateurs. True professionals establish a bank.
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Bank Initiative Robbery
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
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
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
Art and science work in quite different ways: agreed. But, bad as it may sound, I have to admit that I cannot get along as an artist without the use of one or two sciences. …
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Art Science Views Work
Great sport begins at a point where it has ceased to be healthy.
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Great Healthy Sports
Recently my fingers have developed a prejudice against comparatives. They all follow this pattern: a squirrel is smaller than a tree; a bird is more musical than a tree.
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Bird Perspective Squirrels
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
Impact lies in the vicinity of mistakes.
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Impact Lying Mistakes
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
Unhappiness doesn’t grow on the chest like leprosy. Poverty won’t fall off the roof like a loose tile, no; poverty and unhappiness are man’s doing.
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Fall Men Tiles
When you name yourself, you always name another.
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Always Another Names
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

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