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There are times when you have to choose between being human and having good taste.

Bertolt Brecht

When the leaders speak of peace The common folk know That war is coming When the leaders curse war
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Common Folk Lying War
Sometimes it’s more important to be human, than to have good taste.
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Important Sometimes Taste
Those who have had no share in the good fortunes of the mighty Often have a share in their misfortunes.
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Fortune Good Mighty Share
The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set a limit to infinite error.
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Errors Science Wisdom
Would it not be simpler If the Government dissolved the people and elected another?
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Another Government People
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
I don’t like where I’m going and I don’t like where I’ve been. Why am I in a hurry?
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Going Hurry Like
If you don’t have fun, you don’t have a show.
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Fun Inspirational Shows
Writers can’t write as fast as governments make wars; because to write demands thinking.
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Thinking War Writing
Bank robbery is an initiative of amateurs. True professionals establish a bank.
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Bank Initiative Robbery
One forgets too easily the difference between a man and his image, and that there is none between the sound of his voice on the screen and in real life.
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Men Real Screen Voice
Even the most blockheaded bureaucrat, provided he loves peace, is a greater lover of the arts than any so-called art-lover who loves the arts of war.
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Even Greater Love Lover Peace Provided War
To live means to finesse the processes to which one is subjugated.
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Finesse Mean Process
Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must change.
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Order Reality Representation
When the leaders speak of peace, the common folk know war is coming.
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Common Folk Leader War
There must always be some who are brighter and some who are stupider, the latter make up for it by being better workers.
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Latter Stupidity Workers

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