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Pleasures First look from morning’s window The rediscovered book Fascinated faces Snow, the change of the seasons

Bertolt Brecht

When the praying does no good, insurance does help.
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Helping Insurance Praying
Mixing one’s wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.
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Mistake Wine Wisdom
It was never decreed that a god mustn’t pay hotel bills.
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Bills Hotel Pay
We often do not know ourselves the grounds On which we act, though plain to others.
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Ground Knows Others Ourselves
As regards obstacles, the shortest distance between two points can be a curve.
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Curves Distance Two
Who built the seven gates of Thebes? In the books are listed the names of kings. Did the kings heave up the building blocks?
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Block Book Kings
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
Science knows only one commandment – contribute to science.
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Account Knows Science
General, your tank is a powerful vehicle It smashes down forests and crushes a hundred men. But it has one defect: It needs a driver.
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Crush Men Powerful
Writers can’t write as fast as governments make wars; because to write demands thinking.
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Thinking War Writing
To those who does not know the world is on fire, I have nothing to say.
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Fire Nothing World
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
You have to attack once the truth is too weak to defend itself.
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Defend Truth Weak
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
One must live well to know what living is.
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Knows Live Must Well
Though the rich of this earth find no difficulty in creating misery, they can’t bear to see it.
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Bears Creating Earth

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