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The storm that bends the birch trees Is held to be violent But how about the storm That bends the backs of the roadworkers?

Bertolt Brecht

Don’t be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.
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Anticipation Death Life
As regards obstacles, the shortest distance between two points can be a curve.
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Curves Distance Two
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
Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.
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Mistake Moving Wisdom
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
Oh! Moon of Alabama We now must say good-bye We’ve lost our good old mama And must have whiskey Oh, you know why!
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Alabama Bye Moon
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
In the contradiction lies the hope.
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Contradiction Hope Lying
The man who laughs has simply not yet had the terrible news.
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Laughing Laughter Men
Whenever there are great virtues, it’s a sure sign something’s wrong.
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Great Something Virtue Wrong
I don’t trust him. We’re friends.
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Friendship Negative Trust
Temptation to behave is terrible.
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Literature Temptation Terrible
Never believe on faith, see for yourself! What you yourself don’t learn you don’t know.
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Believe Knows Learn
First feed the face, then talk right and wrong.
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Faces Firsts Talk
Art and science coincide insofar as both aim to improve the lives of men and women.
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Art Fashion Mean
It was never decreed that a god mustn’t pay hotel bills.
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Bills Hotel Pay

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