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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

Love is the wish to give, not to receive.
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Giving Love Wish
Don’t be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.
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Anticipation Death Life
Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must change.
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Order Reality Representation
Temptation to behave is terrible.
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Literature Temptation Terrible
We often do not know ourselves the grounds On which we act, though plain to others.
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Ground Knows Others Ourselves
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
It’s all right to hesitate if you then go ahead.
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Ahead Literature Travel
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
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
Sometimes it’s more important to be human, than to have good taste.
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Important Sometimes Taste
Suppose they gave a war, and nobody came? Why then, the war would come to you!
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Politics Suppose War
I Who live in Los Angeles and not in London Find, on thinking about Hell, that it must be Still more like Los Angeles.
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About Country Live Place
Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
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Change Moving Stay Strong
The human race tends to remember the abuses to which it has been subjected rather than the endearments. What’s left of kisses? Wounds, however, leave scars.
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Abuse Kissing Race
For time flows on, and if it did not, it would be a bad prospect for those who do not sit at golden tables.
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Order Reality Tables
Mixing one’s wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.
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Mistake Wine Wisdom

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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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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