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Unfortunate the country that needs heroes!

Bertolt Brecht

Love is also like a coconut which is good while it is fresh, but you have to spit it out when the juice is gone, what’s left tastes bitter.
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Gone Love Sad Taste
Let nothing be called natural In an age of bloody confusion, Ordered disorder, planned caprice, And dehumanized humanity, lest all things Be held unalterable!
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Confusion Humanity Nature
When crimes begin to pile up they become invisible. When sufferings become unendurable the cries are no longer heard. The cries, too, fall like rain in summer.
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Fall Rain Summer
Even hatred of vileness Distorts a mans features.
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Features Hatred
From the start it has been the theatre’s business to entertain people … it needs no other passport than fun.
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Fun People Theatre
The rain Never falls upwards. When the wound Stops hurting What hurts is The scar.
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Fall Hurt Rain
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
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
As regards obstacles, the shortest distance between two points can be a curve.
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Curves Distance Two
But something’s missing.
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Lot Missing Something
Impact lies in the vicinity of mistakes.
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Impact Lying Mistakes
Unfortunate the country that needs heroes!
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Country Hero Needs
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
Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.
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Death Fear Life
If you join the rat race — you’re in the race of rats.
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Join Race Rat
When the leaders speak of peace, the common folk know war is coming.
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Common Folk Leader War

Unfortunate the country that needs heroes!

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