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

Bertolt Brecht

We often do not know ourselves the grounds On which we act, though plain to others.
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Ground Knows Others Ourselves
A good soldier has his heart and soul in it. When he receives an order, he gets a hard on, and when he drives his lance through his enemy’s guts, he comes.
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Art Heart Order Philosophy
The fate of man is man.
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Fate Men Trust
Alas,we who wanted kindness, could not be kind ourselves.
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Be Kind Kindness Wanted
I opened the man’s skull and messed about with his brains. I saw how they patched fellows up, so as to cart them back to the Front as quickly as they could.
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Brains Cart Front Patch Skull
People who understand everything get no stories.
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People Stories Understand
It isn’t important to come out on top, what matters is to be the one who comes out alive.
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Acceptance Important Matters
What they could do with ’round here is a good war. What else can you expect with peace running wild all over the place? You know what the trouble with peace is? No organization.
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Peace Running War
The first time it was reported that our friends were being butchered there was a cry of horror. Then a hundred were butchered. But when a thousand were butchered and there was no end to the butchery, a blanket of silence spread.
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Fall Rain Summer
None will improve your lot If you yourself do not.
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Inspirational Life Motivational
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
If art reflects life, it does so with special mirrors.
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Art Mirrors Special
It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk.
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Banker Clerk Fog
You may proclaim, good sirs, your fine philosophy But till you feed us, right and wrong can wait!
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May Philosophy Waiting
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
Those against politics are in favor of the politics inflicted upon them.
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Democracy Favors Freedom

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