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

Bertolt Brecht

People who fight may lose. People who do not fight have already lost.
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Fighting May People
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
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
People who understand everything get no stories.
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People Stories Understand
Poverty makes you wise but it’s a curse.
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Curse Poverty Wise
Art is not a mirror. Art is a hammer.
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Art Hammers Mirrors
Don’t accept the habitual as a natural thing. In times of disorder, of organized confusion, of de-humanized humanity, nothing should seem natural. Nothing should seem impossible to change.
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Confusion Humanity Impossible
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 righteous one has no sense of humor.
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Humor One Righteous Sense
When the praying does no good, insurance does help.
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Helping Insurance Praying
There are times when you have to choose between being human and having good taste.
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Being Good Human Nature Taste
Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must change.
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Order Reality Representation
What a miserable thing life is: you’re in clover; only the clover isn’t good enough.
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Gratitude Life Sadness
Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes.
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Happiness Hero Land
Things take indeed a wondrous turn When learned men do stoop to learn.
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Men Scholarship Turns
You can make a fresh start with your final breath.
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Breaths Finals Fresh Start

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