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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

Don’t tell me peace has broken out.
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Broken Out Peace
Alas,we who wanted kindness, could not be kind ourselves.
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Be Kind Kindness Wanted
Life is short and so is money.
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Cute Life Money Short
None will improve your lot If you yourself do not.
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Inspirational Life Motivational
First feed the face, then talk right and wrong.
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Faces Firsts Talk
When you name yourself, you always name another.
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Always Another Names
I Who live in Los Angeles and not in London Find, on thinking about Hell, that it must be Still more like Los Angeles.
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About Country Live Place
No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.
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Demand Literature Long
It’s never too late for those whose time has come.
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Come Late never Too
There must always be some who are brighter and some who are stupider, the latter make up for it by being better workers.
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Latter Stupidity Workers
When the leaders speak of peace, the common folk know war is coming.
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Common Folk Leader War
Mixing one’s wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.
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Mistake Wine Wisdom
Art and science coincide insofar as both aim to improve the lives of men and women.
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Art Fashion Mean
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
Those who have had no share in the good fortunes of the mighty Often have a share in their misfortunes.
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Fortune Good Mighty Share
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
We often do not know ourselves the grounds On which we act, though plain to others.
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Ground Knows Others Ourselves
Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes.
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Happiness Hero Land
Our audience must experience not only the ways to free Prometheus, but be schooled in the very desire to free him. Theater must teach all the pleasures and joys of discovery, all the feelings of triumph associated with liberation.
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Audience Discovery Experience Joy Pleasure Schooled
Realist writing, of which history offers many widely varying examples, is likewise conditioned by the question of how, when and for what class it is made use of.
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Condition Example Made Realist
The fate of man is man.
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Fate Men Trust
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
The righteous one has no sense of humor.
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Humor One Righteous Sense
Show them the red tail of a comet, fill them with black terror, and they will all come running out of their houses and break their legs. But tell them one sensible proposition, and support it with seven reasons, and they will simply laugh in your face.
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Black Proposition Running Sensible Show Support
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
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

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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