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Bertolt Brecht

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
Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.
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Poverty Wells Wise
Don’t accept the habitual as a natural thing. In times of disorder, of organized confusion, of de-humanized humanity, nothing should seem natural. Nothing should seem impossible to change.
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Confusion Humanity Impossible
What rapture, oh, it is to know A good thing when you see it And having seen a good thing, oh, What rapture ’tis to flee it.
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Good Knows Rapture Things
What’s breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank?
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Banking Breaking Literature Silence
I opened the man’s skull and messed about with his brains. I saw how they patched fellows up, so as to cart them back to the Front as quickly as they could.
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Brains Cart Front Patch Skull
Unfortunate the country that needs heroes!
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Country Hero Needs
Their peace and their war Are like wind and storm. War grows from their peace.
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Peace Storm War Wind
Love is the wish to give, not to receive.
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Giving Love Wish
Life is short and so is money.
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Cute Life Money Short
Schoenberg is too melodious for me, too sweet.
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Musical Schoenberg Sweet
When you name yourself, you always name another.
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Always Another Names
Great sport begins at a point where it has ceased to be healthy.
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Great Healthy Sports
Everyone needs help from everyone.
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Collaboration Helping Needs
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
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

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