One must live well to know what living is.

Don’t tell me peace has broken out.

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Broken Out

People who understand everything get no stories.

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People who understand everything get no stories.

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Stories

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Running

No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.

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No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.

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Long

It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk.

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Banker Clerk Fog

It is not enough to demand insight and informative images of reality from the theater. Our theater must stimulate a desire for understanding, a delight in changing reality.

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Discovery

The fanatics for progress often have too little appreciation of the existing.

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Appreciation Littles

When the leaders speak of peace, the common folk know war is coming.

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When the leaders speak of peace, the common folk know war is coming.

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Folk Leader

Fearful is the seductive power of goodness.

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Fearful Seductive

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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Years

Something ignoble, loathsome, undignified attends all associations between people and has been transferred to all objects, dwelling, tools, even the landscape itself.

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Dwelling Object

When the house of a great one collapses Many little ones are slain.

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Littles

Bank robbery is an initiative of amateurs. True professionals establish a bank.

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Bank Robbery

Here today we huddle tight As the darkest heathens might The snow falls chilly on our skin The snow is forcing its way in. Hush, snow, come in with us to dwell: We were thrown out by Heaven as well.

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The right to happiness is fundamental; men live so little time and die alone.

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The newspaper The dog Dialectics Showering, swimming Old music Comfortable shoes Comprehension New music Writing, planting Traveling Singing Being friendly

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Newspaper Planting Shoe Singing

One must live well to know what living is.

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