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Bank robbery is an initiative of amateurs. True professionals establish a bank.

Bertolt Brecht

Who struggles can fail. Who doesn’t struggle has already failed!
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Diversity Justice Struggle
Who has good luck is good, Who has bad luck is bad.
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Bad Good Luck
But something’s missing.
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Lot Missing Something
It was never decreed that a god mustn’t pay hotel bills.
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Bills Hotel Pay
To those who does not know the world is on fire, I have nothing to say.
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Fire Nothing World
What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank?
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Founding Funny Money Robbing
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
For the task assigned them Men aren’t smart enough or sly Any rogue can blind them With a clever lie.
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Clever Lying Smart
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
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
When you name yourself, you always name another.
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Always Another Names
What rapture, oh, it is to know A good thing when you see it And having seen a good thing, oh, What rapture ’tis to flee it.
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Good Knows Rapture Things
Mixing one’s wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.
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Mistake Wine Wisdom
It is not enough to demand insight and informative images of reality from the theater. Our theater must stimulate a desire for understanding, a delight in changing reality.
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Desire Reality Understanding
What a miserable thing life is: you’re in clover; only the clover isn’t good enough.
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Gratitude Life Sadness
Come in, dear wind, and be our guest You too have neither home nor rest.
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Guest Home Wind

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