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Go make yourself a plan And be a shining light. Then make yourself a second plan, For neither will come right.

Bertolt Brecht

Then I will tell you something. I do not believe in it. Forty years among men has consistently taught me that they are not amenable to commonsense.
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Belief Men Running
General, your tank is a powerful vehicle It smashes down forests and crushes a hundred men. But it has one defect: It needs a driver.
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Crush Men Powerful
Let nothing be called natural In an age of bloody confusion, Ordered disorder, planned caprice, And dehumanized humanity, lest all things Be held unalterable!
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Confusion Humanity Nature
For time flows on, and if it did not, it would be a bad prospect for those who do not sit at golden tables.
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Order Reality Tables
Recently my fingers have developed a prejudice against comparatives. They all follow this pattern: a squirrel is smaller than a tree; a bird is more musical than a tree.
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Bird Perspective Squirrels
Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.
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Art Mirror Reality
If you fight you might lose, if you don’t you have already lost.
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Fighting Lost
Schoenberg is too melodious for me, too sweet.
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Musical Schoenberg Sweet
What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?
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Cheesy Funny Gone Good Morning
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
When you name yourself, you always name another.
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Always Another Names
Don’t be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.
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Anticipation Death Life
Mixing one’s wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.
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Mistake Wine Wisdom
…it is simplicity that is difficult to make.
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Design Difficult Simplicity Software
Never believe on faith, see for yourself! What you yourself don’t learn you don’t know.
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Believe Knows Learn
Great sport begins at a point where it has ceased to be healthy.
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Great Healthy Sports

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