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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.

Bertolt Brecht

There are times when you have to choose between being human and having good taste.
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Being Good Human Nature Taste
Eats first, morals after.
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Eat Firsts Moral
I don’t like where I’m going and I don’t like where I’ve been. Why am I in a hurry?
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Going Hurry Like
General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.
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Defect Men Thinking
He who fights, can lose. He who doesn’t fight, has already lost.
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Fighting Loses Lost
Erst kommt das Fressen, dann kommt die Moral.
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Anger Dies Moral
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
Oh! Moon of Alabama We now must say good-bye We’ve lost our good old mama And must have whiskey Oh, you know why!
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Alabama Bye Moon
Sin is what is new, strong, surprising, strange. The theatre must take an interest in sin if the young are to be able to go there.
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Able Strong Theatre
As regards obstacles, the shortest distance between two points can be a curve.
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Curves Distance Two
It’s all right to hesitate if you then go ahead.
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Ahead Literature Travel
People who fight may lose. People who do not fight have already lost.
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Fighting May People
Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
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Change Moving Stay Strong
The shrill voices of those who give orders Are full of fear like the squeakings of Piglets awaiting the butcher’s knife, as their fat arses Sweat with anxiety in their office chairs…. Fear rules not only those who are ruled, but The rulers too.
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Knives Order Sweat
One can describe the world of today to the people of today only if one describes it as capable of alteration.
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People Today World
The headlong stream is termed violent But the river bed hemming it in is Termed violent by no one.
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Bed Rivers Violent

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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