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For the task assigned them Men aren’t smart enough or sly Any rogue can blind them With a clever lie.

Bertolt Brecht

None will improve your lot If you yourself do not.
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Inspirational Life Motivational
I am a playwright. I show What I have seen. In the man markets I have seen how men are traded. That I show, I, the playwright.
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Men Show Traded
People remain what they are even if their faces fall apart.
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Faces Fall People
The headlong stream is termed violent But the river bed hemming it in is Termed violent by no one.
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Bed Rivers Violent
He who is still laughing is he who hasn’t heard the terrible news.
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Laughing News Terrible
Young Alexander conquered India. He alone? Caesar beat the Gauls. Was there not even a cook in his army? Philip of Spain wept as his fleet was sunk and destroyed. Were there no other tears? Frederick the Great triumphed in the Seven Years War. Who Triumphed with him?
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Army War Years
Their peace and their war Are like wind and storm. War grows from their peace.
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Peace Storm War Wind
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
I was called up in the war and sent to a hospital. I dressed wounds, applied iodine, gave enemas, did blood transfusions. If the doctor ordered: “Brecht, amputate a leg!”, I would reply, “Certainly, Your Excellency!”, and cut off the leg. If I was told, “Perform a trepanning!”
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Cutting Men Transfusion War
Who struggles can fail. Who doesn’t struggle has already failed!
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Diversity Justice Struggle
If you wan to steal money, don’t rob a bank – open one.
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Money One Open Stealing
General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.
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Defect Men Thinking
There must always be some who are brighter and some who are stupider, the latter make up for it by being better workers.
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Latter Stupidity Workers
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
It’s all right to hesitate if you then go ahead.
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Ahead Literature Travel
What’s breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank?
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Banking Breaking Literature Silence

For the task assigned them Men aren’t smart enough or sly Any rogue can blind them With a clever lie.

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