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For what’s the use of talking with a man who has a disease and thinks about the stars?

Bertolt Brecht

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
Who has good luck is good, Who has bad luck is bad.
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Bad Good Luck
Those against politics are in favor of the politics inflicted upon them.
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Democracy Favors Freedom
If you fight you might lose, if you don’t you have already lost.
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Fighting Lost
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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Emperor Finest Ruined
We often do not know ourselves the grounds On which we act, though plain to others.
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Ground Knows Others Ourselves
When the house of a great one collapses Many little ones are slain.
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Collapse House Littles
You don’t need to pray to God any more when there are storms in the sky, but you do have to be insured.
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God Sky Storm
A man who sees another man on the street corner with only a stump for an arm will be so shocked the first time he’ll give him sixpence. But the second time it’ll only be a three penny bit. And if he sees him a third time, he’ll have him cold-bloodedly handed over to the police.
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Giving Men Police Six Street Time
No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.
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Demand Literature Long
Those who take the most from the table, teach contentment. Those for whom the taxes are destined, demand sacrifice. Those who eat their fill, speak to the hungry, of wonderful times to come. Those who lead the country into the abyss, call ruling difficult, for ordinary folk.
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Contentment Country Sacrifice
The right to happiness is fundamental; men live so little time and die alone.
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Alone Happiness Joy Men
Writers can’t write as fast as governments make wars; because to write demands thinking.
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Thinking War Writing
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
There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.
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Leadership Numbers Two
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

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