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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

Who has good luck is good, Who has bad luck is bad.
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Bad Good Luck
You have to attack once the truth is too weak to defend itself.
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Defend Truth Weak
What’s breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank?
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Banking Breaking Literature Silence
Would it not be simpler If the Government dissolved the people and elected another?
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Another Government People
Unfortunate the country that needs heroes!
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Country Hero Needs
First feed the face, then talk right and wrong.
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Faces Firsts Talk
All the gang of those who rule us Hope our quarrels never stop Helping them to split and fool us So they can remain on top.
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Fool Government Splits
When something seems ‘the most obvious thing in the world’ it means that any attempt to understand the world has been given up.
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Mean World
Show them the red tail of a comet, fill them with black terror, and they will all come running out of their houses and break their legs. But tell them one sensible proposition, and support it with seven reasons, and they will simply laugh in your face.
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Black Proposition Running Sensible Show Support
We often do not know ourselves the grounds On which we act, though plain to others.
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Ground Knows Others Ourselves
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
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
Firebugs dragging their gasoline bottles are approaching the Academy of Arts, with a grin. And so, instead of embracing them, let us demand the freedom of the elbow to knock the bottles out of their filthy hands.
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Art Embrace Hands War
If art reflects life, it does so with special mirrors.
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Art Mirrors Special
…it is simplicity that is difficult to make.
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Design Difficult Simplicity Software
First the grub, then the morals.
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Firsts Miscellaneous Moral

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