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What’s a joy to the one is a nightmare to the other.

Bertolt Brecht

Never believe on faith, see for yourself! What you yourself don’t learn you don’t know.
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Believe Knows Learn
People who fight may lose. People who do not fight have already lost.
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Fighting May People
But something’s missing.
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Lot Missing Something
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
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
If you join the rat race — you’re in the race of rats.
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Join Race Rat
Even hatred of vileness Distorts a mans features.
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Features Hatred
It’s never too late for those whose time has come.
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Come Late never Too
He who speaks of enemies , himself is the enemy.
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Enemy Himself Speak
Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon.
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Book Men Weapons
One must live well to know what living is.
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Knows Live Must Well
If you wan to steal money, don’t rob a bank – open one.
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Money One Open Stealing
When something seems ‘the most obvious thing in the world’ it means that any attempt to understand the world has been given up.
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Mean World
Right is its own defense.
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Defense Literature Own Right
Though the rich of this earth find no difficulty in creating misery, they can’t bear to see it.
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Bears Creating Earth
We attacked a foreign people and treated them like rebels. As you know, it’s all right to treat barbarians barbarically. It’s the desire to be barbaric that makes governments call their enemies barbarians.
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Government People War

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