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

Bertolt Brecht

Mixing one’s wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.
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Mistake Wine Wisdom
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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Characteristics Each Face Spitting
People who fight may lose. People who do not fight have already lost.
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Fighting May People
When the leaders speak of peace The common folk know That war is coming When the leaders curse war
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Common Folk Lying War
If you fight you might lose, if you don’t you have already lost.
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Fighting Lost
Those who take the most from the table, teach contentment. Those for whom the taxes are destined, demand sacrifice. Those who eat their fill, speak to the hungry, of wonderful times to come. Those who lead the country into the abyss, call ruling difficult, for ordinary folk.
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Contentment Country Sacrifice
Schoenberg is too melodious for me, too sweet.
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Musical Schoenberg Sweet
For once you must try not to shirk the facts: mankind is kept alive by bestial acts.
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Alive Sex Trying
There are times when you have to choose between being human and having good taste.
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Being Good Human Nature Taste
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
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
Who has good luck is good, Who has bad luck is bad.
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Bad Good Luck
Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon.
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Book Men Weapons
When the house of a great one collapses Many little ones are slain.
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Collapse House Littles
You can’t write poems about trees when the woods are full of policemen.
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Tree Wood Writing
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

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