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Oh why do we not say the important things, it would be so easy, and we are damned because we do not.

Bertolt Brecht

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
One cannot be arraigned for declaring a war, which every ruler has to do once in a while, but only for running a war badly.
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Declaring Running War
The fate of man is man.
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Fate Men Trust
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
Suppose they gave a war, and nobody came? Why then, the war would come to you!
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Politics Suppose War
If you wan to steal money, don’t rob a bank – open one.
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Money One Open Stealing
Don’t tell me peace has broken out.
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Broken Out Peace
If you join the rat race — you’re in the race of rats.
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Join Race Rat
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
Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods.
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Reality Taken Writing
A theater without beer is just a museum
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Beer Museums Theater
Sometimes it’s more important to be human, than to have good taste.
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Important Sometimes Taste
There are men who struggle for a day and they are good. There are men who struggle for a year and they are better. There are men who struggle many years, and they are better still. But there are those who struggle all their lives: These are the indispensable ones.
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Men Struggle Years
The mill wheel turns, it turns forever, though what is uppermost remains not so.
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Forever Mills Wheels
All artforms are in the service of the greatest of all arts: the art of living.
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Art Living Service
Never believe on faith, see for yourself! What you yourself don’t learn you don’t know.
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Believe Knows Learn

Oh why do we not say the important things, it would be so easy, and we are damned because we do not.

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