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What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank?

Bertolt Brecht

In my view, the great and complicated things that go on in the world cannot be adequately recognized by people who do not use every possible aid to understanding.
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Adequately Great Recognized Understanding
Poverty makes you wise but it’s a curse.
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Curse Poverty Wise
One cannot be arraigned for declaring a war, which every ruler has to do once in a while, but only for running a war badly.
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Declaring Running War
There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.
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Leadership Numbers Two
Grub first, then ethics.
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Cooking First Food
When the praying does no good, insurance does help.
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Helping Insurance Praying
What’s breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank?
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Banking Breaking Literature Silence
Even hatred of vileness Distorts a mans features.
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Features Hatred
First feed the face, then talk right and wrong.
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Faces Firsts Talk
Don’t be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.
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Anticipation Death Life
We attacked a foreign people and treated them like rebels. As you know, it’s all right to treat barbarians barbarically. It’s the desire to be barbaric that makes governments call their enemies barbarians.
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Government People War
People remain what they are even if their faces fall apart.
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Faces Fall People
For what’s the use of talking with a man who has a disease and thinks about the stars?
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Men Stars Thinking
The finest plans have always been spoiled by the littleness of them that should carry them out. Even emperors can’t do it all by themselves.
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Finest Spoil
What a miserable thing life is: you’re in clover; only the clover isn’t good enough.
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Gratitude Life Sadness
Don’t tell me peace has broken out.
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Broken Out Peace

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