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When the praying does no good, insurance does help.

Bertolt Brecht

Firebugs dragging their gasoline bottles are approaching the Academy of Arts, with a grin. And so, instead of embracing them, let us demand the freedom of the elbow to knock the bottles out of their filthy hands.
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Art Embrace Hands War
When you name yourself, you always name another.
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Always Another Names
The mill wheel turns, it turns forever, though what is uppermost remains not so.
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Forever Mills Wheels
Great sport begins at a point where it has ceased to be healthy.
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Great Healthy Sports
If art reflects life, it does so with special mirrors.
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Art Mirrors Special
There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.
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Leadership Numbers Two
You can’t write poems about trees when the woods are full of policemen.
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Tree Wood Writing
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
Sometimes it’s more important to be human, than to have good taste.
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Important Sometimes Taste
Nowadays, anyone who wishes to combat lies and ignorance and to write the truth must overcome at least five difficulties.
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Lying Running Writing
Temptation to behave is terrible.
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Literature Temptation Terrible
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
He who is still laughing is he who hasn’t heard the terrible news.
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Laughing News Terrible
People who fight may lose. People who do not fight have already lost.
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Fighting May People
It’s never too late for those whose time has come.
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Come Late never Too
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

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