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There must always be some who are brighter and some who are stupider, the latter make up for it by being better workers.

Bertolt Brecht

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
All artforms are in the service of the greatest of all arts: the art of living.
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Art Living Service
Temptation to behave is terrible.
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Literature Temptation Terrible
When the wound/ No longer hurts/ The scar does.
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Doe Hurt Scar
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
Let nothing be called natural In an age of bloody confusion, Ordered disorder, planned caprice, And dehumanized humanity, lest all things Be held unalterable!
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Confusion Humanity Nature
Suppose they gave a war, and nobody came? Why then, the war would come to you!
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Politics Suppose War
The first time it was reported that our friends were being butchered there was a cry of horror. Then a hundred were butchered. But when a thousand were butchered and there was no end to the butchery, a blanket of silence spread.
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Fall Rain Summer
Everyone needs help from everyone.
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Collaboration Helping Needs
General, your bomber is powerful. It flies faster than a storm and carries more than an elephant. But it has one defect: It needs a mechanic. General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.
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Bother Carries Defect Faster General Man Storm
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
The mill wheel turns, it turns forever, though what is uppermost remains not so.
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Forever Mills Wheels
A theater without beer is just a museum
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Beer Museums Theater
Fearful is the seductive power of goodness.
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Fearful Goodness Seductive
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
It’s all right to hesitate if you then go ahead.
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