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Mixing one’s wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.

Bertolt Brecht

Go make yourself a plan And be a shining light. Then make yourself a second plan, For neither will come right.
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Light Planning Shining
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
Love is the wish to give, not to receive.
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Giving Love Wish
All artforms are in the service of the greatest of all arts: the art of living.
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Art Living Service
War is like love, it always finds a way.
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Life Love Military
Only bad generals need heroes.
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General Hero Needs
Unfortunate the country that needs heroes!
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Country Hero Needs
The worst illiterate is the political illiterate. He hears nothing, sees nothing, takes no part in political life. He doesn’t seem to know that the cost of living, the price of beans, of flour, of rent, of medicines all depend on political decisions.
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Children Hate Ignorance
What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank?
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Founding Funny Money Robbing
Why be a man when you can be a success?
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Inspirational Life Motivational
Great sport begins at a point where it has ceased to be healthy.
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Great Healthy Sports
What rapture, oh, it is to know A good thing when you see it And having seen a good thing, oh, What rapture ’tis to flee it.
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Good Knows Rapture Things
Never believe on faith, see for yourself! What you yourself don’t learn you don’t know.
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Believe Knows Learn
Impact lies in the vicinity of mistakes.
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Impact Lying Mistakes
We often do not know ourselves the grounds On which we act, though plain to others.
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Ground Knows Others Ourselves
The defeats and victories of the fellows at the top aren’t always defeats and victories for the fellows at the bottom.
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Defeat Sunset Victory
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
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
Firebugs dragging their gasoline bottles are approaching the Academy of Arts, with a grin. And so, instead of embracing them, let us demand the freedom of the elbow to knock the bottles out of their filthy hands.
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Art Embrace Hands War
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
Mixing one’s wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.
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Mistake Wine Wisdom
When evil-doing comes like falling rain, nobody calls out “stop!” 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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Become Doing Evil Invisible Suffering
It’s all right to hesitate if you then go ahead.
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Ahead Literature Travel
The alienation effect in German epic theater is achieved not only through the actors, but also through music (chorus and song) andsets (transparencies, film strips, etc.). Its main purpose is to place the staged events in their historical context.
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Art Epic Film History Purpose Song
Eats first, morals after.
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Eat Firsts Moral
Little changes are the enemies of great changes.
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Change Enemy Littles
The war which is coming Is not the first one. There were Other wars before it. When the last one came to an end There were conquerors and conquered. Among the conquered the common people Starved. Among the conquerors The common people starved too.
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Lasts People War

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