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

Bertolt Brecht

Pleasures First look from morning’s window The rediscovered book Fascinated faces Snow, the change of the seasons
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Book Change Dog Morning
He who fights, can lose. He who doesn’t fight, has already lost.
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Fighting Loses Lost
He who speaks of enemies , himself is the enemy.
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Enemy Himself Speak
A good soldier has his heart and soul in it. When he receives an order, he gets a hard on, and when he drives his lance through his enemy’s guts, he comes.
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Art Heart Order Philosophy
The worst illiterate is the political illiterate. He hears nothing, sees nothing, takes no part in political life. He doesn’t seem to know that the cost of living, the price of beans, of flour, of rent, of medicines all depend on political decisions.
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Children Hate Ignorance
Who fights may lose, but who does not fight has lost already.
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Already Fighting May
The more innocent they are, the more they deserve to be shot.
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Deserve Innocent Shots
When the praying does no good, insurance does help.
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Helping Insurance Praying
For once you must try not to shirk the facts: mankind is kept alive by bestial acts.
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Alive Sex Trying
When evil-doing comes like falling rain, nobody calls out “stop!” When crimes begin to pile up they become invisible. When sufferings become unendurable the cries are no longer heard. The cries, too, fall like rain in summer.
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Become Doing Evil Invisible Suffering
There are men who struggle for a day and they are good. There are men who struggle for a year and they are better. There are men who struggle many years, and they are better still. But there are those who struggle all their lives: These are the indispensable ones.
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Men Struggle Years
People remain what they are even if their faces fall apart.
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Faces Fall People
Everyone needs help from everyone.
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Collaboration Helping Needs
When the house of a great one collapses Many little ones are slain.
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Collapse House Littles
The mill wheel turns, it turns forever, though what is uppermost remains not so.
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Forever Mills Wheels
I am a playwright. I show What I have seen. In the man markets I have seen how men are traded. That I show, I, the playwright.
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Men Show Traded

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