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

Bertolt Brecht

In my view, the great and complicated things that go on in the world cannot be adequately recognized by people who do not use every possible aid to understanding.
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Adequately Great Recognized Understanding
Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.
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Poverty Wells Wise
You may proclaim, good sirs, your fine philosophy But till you feed us, right and wrong can wait!
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May Philosophy Waiting
Right is its own defense.
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Defense Literature Own Right
Sin is what is new, strong, surprising, strange. The theatre must take an interest in sin if the young are to be able to go there.
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Able Strong Theatre
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
Come in, dear wind, and be our guest You too have neither home nor rest.
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Guest Home Wind
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
I don’t trust him. We’re friends.
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Friendship Negative Trust
It was never decreed that a god mustn’t pay hotel bills.
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Bills Hotel Pay
I’m in good form, taking no interest in things, neglecting clothes, meals, company, and feeling calm and stable as I write.
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Clothes Feelings Writing
What’s breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank?
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Banking Breaking Literature Silence
Today every invention is received with a cry of triumph which soon turns into a cry of fear.
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Fear Today Triumph
Spring is noticed, if at all By people sitting in railway trains.
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People Sitting Spring
A man who sees another man on the street corner with only a stump for an arm will be so shocked the first time he’ll give him sixpence. But the second time it’ll only be a three penny bit. And if he sees him a third time, he’ll have him cold-bloodedly handed over to the police.
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Giving Men Police Six Street Time
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

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