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People are too durable, that’s their main trouble. They can do too much to themselves, they last too long.

Bertolt Brecht

Those against politics are in favor of the politics inflicted upon them.
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Democracy Favors Freedom
Unhappiness doesn’t grow on the chest like leprosy. Poverty won’t fall off the roof like a loose tile, no; poverty and unhappiness are man’s doing.
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Fall Men Tiles
Who fights may lose, but who does not fight has lost already.
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Already Fighting May
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
Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes.
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Happiness Hero Land
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
The human race tends to remember the abuses to which it has been subjected rather than the endearments. What’s left of kisses? Wounds, however, leave scars.
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Abuse Kissing Race
For art to be ‘unpolitical’ means only to ally itself with the ‘ruling’ group.
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Allies Art Mean
Who struggles can fail. Who doesn’t struggle has already failed!
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Diversity Justice Struggle
When the house of a great one collapses Many little ones are slain.
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Collapse House Littles
Today every invention is received with a cry of triumph which soon turns into a cry of fear.
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Fear Today Triumph
Schoenberg is too melodious for me, too sweet.
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Musical Schoenberg Sweet
Temptation to behave is terrible.
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Literature Temptation Terrible
Spring is noticed, if at all By people sitting in railway trains.
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People Sitting Spring
The righteous one has no sense of humor.
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Humor One Righteous Sense
Mixing one’s wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.
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Mistake Wine Wisdom

People are too durable, that’s their main trouble. They can do too much to themselves, they last too long.

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