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When the praying does no good, insurance does help.

Bertolt Brecht

The human race tends to remember the abuses to which it has been subjected rather than the endearments. What’s left of kisses? Wounds, however, leave scars.
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Abuse Kissing Race
General, your tank is a powerful vehicle it smashes down forests and crushes a hundred men. but it has one defect: it needs a driver.
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Crush Men Powerful
The defeats and victories of the fellows at the top aren’t always defeats and victories for the fellows at the bottom.
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Defeat Sunset Victory
What they could do with ’round here is a good war. What else can you expect with peace running wild all over the place? You know what the trouble with peace is? No organization.
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Peace Running War
The mobilization order is already written out. Every day, to earn my daily bread I go to the market where lies are bought Hopefully I take up my place among the sellers.
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Eran Hopefully Mobilization Out Place Seller Written
Schoenberg is too melodious for me, too sweet.
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Musical Schoenberg Sweet
The man who laughs has simply not yet had the terrible news.
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Laughing Laughter Men
Sometimes it’s more important to be human, than to have good taste.
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Important Sometimes Taste
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
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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Desire Reality Understanding
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
There are a few things that’ll move people to pity, a few, but the trouble is, when they’ve been used several times, they no longer work.
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Moving People Trouble
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
Art and science coincide insofar as both aim to improve the lives of men and women.
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Art Fashion Mean
Those against politics are in favor of the politics inflicted upon them.
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Democracy Favors Freedom

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