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The righteous one has no sense of humor.

Bertolt Brecht

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
Oh why do we not say the important things, it would be so easy, and we are damned because we do not.
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Dammed Easy Important
Who struggles can fail. Who doesn’t struggle has already failed!
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Diversity Justice Struggle
The fanatics for progress often have too little appreciation of the existing.
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Appreciation Littles Progress
A man who sees another man on the street corner with only a stump for an arm will be so shocked the first time he’ll give him sixpence. But the second time it’ll only be a three penny bit. And if he sees him a third time, he’ll have him cold-bloodedly handed over to the police.
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Giving Men Police Six Street Time
A theater without beer is just a museum
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Beer Museums Theater
First feed the face, then talk right and wrong.
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Faces Firsts Talk
Grub first, then ethics.
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Cooking First Food
What’s a joy to the one is a nightmare to the other.
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Joy Nightmare One Other
We attacked a foreign people and treated them like rebels. As you know, it’s all right to treat barbarians barbarically. It’s the desire to be barbaric that makes governments call their enemies barbarians.
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Government People War
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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Latter Stupidity Workers
Today every invention is received with a cry of triumph which soon turns into a cry of fear.
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Fear Today Triumph
One forgets too easily the difference between a man and his image, and that there is none between the sound of his voice on the screen and in real life.
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Men Real Screen Voice
What kind of times are they, when A talk about trees is almost a crime Because it implies silence about so many horrors?
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Kind Silence Tree
Fearful is the seductive power of goodness.
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Fearful Goodness Seductive
With drooping shoulders The majority sit hunched, their foreheads furrowed like Stony ground that has been repeatedly ploughed-up to no purpose.
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Majority Purpose Shoulders

The righteous one has no sense of humor.

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