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The fanatics for progress often have too little appreciation of the existing.

Bertolt Brecht

The storm that bends the birch trees Is held to be violent But how about the storm That bends the backs of the roadworkers?
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Storm Tree Violent
Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
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Change Moving Stay Strong
Writers can’t write as fast as governments make wars; because to write demands thinking.
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Thinking War Writing
People who fight may lose. People who do not fight have already lost.
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Fighting May People
When evil-doing comes like falling rain, nobody calls out “stop!” When crimes begin to pile up they become invisible. When sufferings become unendurable the cries are no longer heard. The cries, too, fall like rain in summer.
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Become Doing Evil Invisible Suffering
Love is the wish to give, not to receive.
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Giving Love Wish
We often do not know ourselves the grounds On which we act, though plain to others.
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Ground Knows Others Ourselves
If you fight you might lose, if you don’t you have already lost.
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Fighting Lost
For once you must try not to shirk the facts: mankind is kept alive by bestial acts.
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Alive Sex Trying
I am a playwright. I show What I have seen. In the man markets I have seen how men are traded. That I show, I, the playwright.
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Men Show Traded
Erst kommt das Fressen, dann kommt die Moral.
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Anger Dies Moral
Terrible is the temptation to be good.
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Be Good Temptation Terrible
What’s breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank?
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Banking Breaking Literature Silence
There are times when you have to choose between being human and having good taste.
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Being Good Human Nature Taste
Mixing one’s wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.
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Mistake Wine Wisdom
It’s never too late for those whose time has come.
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Come Late never Too

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