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For once you must try not to shirk the facts: mankind is kept alive by bestial acts.

Bertolt Brecht

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
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
It’s all right to hesitate if you then go ahead.
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Ahead Literature Travel
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
There are some with brains and some without. It makes for a better division of labour.
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Brain Division Labor
Pleasures First look from morning’s window The rediscovered book Fascinated faces Snow, the change of the seasons
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Book Change Dog Morning
Then I will tell you something. I do not believe in it. Forty years among men has consistently taught me that they are not amenable to commonsense.
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Belief Men Running
Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
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Change Moving Stay Strong
Everyone needs help from everyone.
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Collaboration Helping Needs
Mixing one’s wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.
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Mistake Wine Wisdom
One can describe the world of today to the people of today only if one describes it as capable of alteration.
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People Today World
Boy Meets Girl, So What?
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Boys Broken Girl Heart
You have to attack once the truth is too weak to defend itself.
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Defend Truth Weak
Things take indeed a wondrous turn When learned men do stoop to learn.
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Men Scholarship Turns
Terrible is the temptation to be good.
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Be Good Temptation Terrible
Life is short and so is money.
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Cute Life Money Short

For once you must try not to shirk the facts: mankind is kept alive by bestial acts.

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