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Those who have had no share in the good fortunes of the mighty Often have a share in their misfortunes.

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
Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon.
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Book Men Weapons
Don’t be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.
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Anticipation Death Life
With drooping shoulders The majority sit hunched, their foreheads furrowed like Stony ground that has been repeatedly ploughed-up to no purpose.
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Majority Purpose Shoulders
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
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
When the leaders speak of peace, the common folk know war is coming.
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Common Folk Leader War
Art and science coincide insofar as both aim to improve the lives of men and women.
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Art Fashion Mean
Show them the red tail of a comet, fill them with black terror, and they will all come running out of their houses and break their legs. But tell them one sensible proposition, and support it with seven reasons, and they will simply laugh in your face.
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Black Proposition Running Sensible Show Support
Schoenberg is too melodious for me, too sweet.
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Musical Schoenberg Sweet
There are men who struggle for a day and they are good. There are men who struggle for a year and they are better. There are men who struggle many years, and they are better still. But there are those who struggle all their lives: These are the indispensable ones.
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Men Struggle Years
War is like love, it always finds a way.
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Life Love Military
Of all the works of man I like best Those which have been used. The copper pots with their dents and flattened edges The knives and forks whose wooden handles Have been worn away by many hands: such forms Seemed to me the noblest.
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Approaching Folk Hands Knives Men
What a miserable thing life is: you’re in clover; only the clover isn’t good enough.
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Gratitude Life Sadness
I don’t like where I’m going and I don’t like where I’ve been. Why am I in a hurry?
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Going Hurry Like
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

Those who have had no share in the good fortunes of the mighty Often have a share in their misfortunes.

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