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When the praying does no good, insurance does help.

Bertolt Brecht

Suppose they gave a war, and nobody came? Why then, the war would come to you!
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Politics Suppose War
Fearful is the seductive power of goodness.
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Fearful Goodness Seductive
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
Don’t tell me peace has broken out.
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Broken Out Peace
No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.
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Demand Literature Long
Who struggles can fail. Who doesn’t struggle has already failed!
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Diversity Justice Struggle
Terrible is the temptation to be good.
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Be Good Temptation Terrible
If you don’t have fun, you don’t have a show.
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Fun Inspirational Shows
People are too durable, that’s their main trouble. They can do too much to themselves, they last too long.
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Long People Silly
People who understand everything get no stories.
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People Stories Understand
But something’s missing.
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Lot Missing Something
The more innocent they are, the more they deserve to be shot.
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Deserve Innocent Shots
If you fight you might lose, if you don’t you have already lost.
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Fighting Lost
Unhappiness doesn’t grow on the chest like leprosy. Poverty won’t fall off the roof like a loose tile, no; poverty and unhappiness are man’s doing.
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Fall Men Tiles
Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods.
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Reality Taken Writing
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

When the praying does no good, insurance does help.

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