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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
Who fights may lose, but who does not fight has lost already.
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Already Fighting May
Who struggles can fail. Who doesn’t struggle has already failed!
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Diversity Justice Struggle
The man who laughs has simply not yet had the terrible news.
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Laughing Laughter Men
None will improve your lot If you yourself do not.
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Inspirational Life Motivational
Each of us is the strongest one in his or her own skin. Characteristics should take off their hats to one another, instead of spitting in each other’s faces.
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Characteristics Each Face Spitting
The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set a limit to infinite error.
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Errors Science Wisdom
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
Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.
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Death Fear 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
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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Art Discovery Reality
People remain what they are even if their faces fall apart.
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Faces Fall People
The finest plans are always ruined by the littleness of those who ought to carry them out, for emperor himself can actually be nothing.
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Emperor Finest Ruined
It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk.
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Banker Clerk Fog
When the praying does no good, insurance does help.
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Helping Insurance Praying
To live means to finesse the processes to which one is subjugated.
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Finesse Mean Process

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