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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

When you name yourself, you always name another.
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Always Another Names
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
What’s breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank?
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Banking Breaking Literature Silence
Who has good luck is good, Who has bad luck is bad.
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Bad Good Luck
In the contradiction lies the hope.
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Contradiction Hope Lying
Would it not be simpler If the Government dissolved the people and elected another?
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Another Government People
What’s a joy to the one is a nightmare to the other.
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Joy Nightmare One Other
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
The fanatics for progress often have too little appreciation of the existing.
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Appreciation Littles Progress
Then I will tell you something. I do not believe in it. Forty years among men has consistently taught me that they are not amenable to commonsense.
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Belief Men Running
Realist writing, of which history offers many widely varying examples, is likewise conditioned by the question of how, when and for what class it is made use of.
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Condition Example Made Realist
People who understand everything get no stories.
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People Stories Understand
For once you must try not to shirk the facts: mankind is kept alive by bestial acts.
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Alive Sex Trying
To live means to finesse the processes to which one is subjugated.
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Finesse Mean Process
If you wan to steal money, don’t rob a bank – open one.
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Money One Open Stealing
It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk.
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Banker Clerk Fog

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