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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

Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.
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Death Fear Life
Unfortunate the country that needs heroes!
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Country Hero Needs
Each of us is the strongest one in his or her own skin. Characteristics should take off their hats to one another, instead of spitting in each other’s faces.
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Characteristics Each Face Spitting
You can’t write poems about trees when the woods are full of policemen.
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Tree Wood Writing
Life is short and so is money.
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Cute Life Money Short
Great sport begins at a point where it has ceased to be healthy.
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Great Healthy Sports
Who built the seven gates of Thebes? In the books are listed the names of kings. Did the kings heave up the building blocks?
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Block Book Kings
Then I will tell you something. I do not believe in it. Forty years among men has consistently taught me that they are not amenable to commonsense.
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Belief Men Running
General, your bomber is powerful. It flies faster than a storm and carries more than an elephant. But it has one defect: It needs a mechanic. General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.
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Bother Carries Defect Faster General Man Storm
He who speaks of enemies , himself is the enemy.
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Enemy Himself Speak
To those who does not know the world is on fire, I have nothing to say.
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Fire Nothing World
When you name yourself, you always name another.
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Always Another Names
There must always be some who are brighter and some who are stupider, the latter make up for it by being better workers.
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Latter Stupidity Workers
To live means to finesse the processes to which one is subjugated.
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Finesse Mean Process
Some party hack decreed that the people had lost the government’s confidence and could only regain it with redoubled effort. If that is the case, would it not be simpler, If the government simply dissolved the people And elected another?
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Government Party People
It’s never too late for those whose time has come.
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Come Late never Too

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