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Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes.

Bertolt Brecht

The war which is coming Is not the first one. There were Other wars before it. When the last one came to an end There were conquerors and conquered. Among the conquered the common people Starved. Among the conquerors The common people starved too.
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Lasts People War
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
Science knows only one commandment – contribute to science.
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Account Knows Science
Love is also like a coconut which is good while it is fresh, but you have to spit it out when the juice is gone, what’s left tastes bitter.
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Gone Love Sad Taste
Go make yourself a plan And be a shining light. Then make yourself a second plan, For neither will come right.
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Light Planning Shining
With drooping shoulders The majority sit hunched, their foreheads furrowed like Stony ground that has been repeatedly ploughed-up to no purpose.
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Majority Purpose Shoulders
But something’s missing.
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Lot Missing Something
Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.
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Death Fear Life
The worst illiterate is the political illiterate. He hears nothing, sees nothing, takes no part in political life. He doesn’t seem to know that the cost of living, the price of beans, of flour, of rent, of medicines all depend on political decisions.
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Children Hate Ignorance
When the praying does no good, insurance does help.
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Helping Insurance Praying
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
Great sport begins at a point where it has ceased to be healthy.
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Great Healthy Sports
Of all the works of man I like best Those which have been used. The copper pots with their dents and flattened edges The knives and forks whose wooden handles Have been worn away by many hands: such forms Seemed to me the noblest.
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Approaching Folk Hands Knives Men
It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk.
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Banker Clerk Fog
Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods.
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Reality Taken Writing
Bank robbery is an initiative of amateurs. True professionals establish a bank.
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Bank Initiative Robbery

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