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The man who laughs has simply not yet had the terrible news.

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
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
Bank robbery is an initiative of amateurs. True professionals establish a bank.
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Bank Initiative Robbery
Would it not be simpler If the Government dissolved the people and elected another?
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Another Government People
From the start it has been the theatre’s business to entertain people … it needs no other passport than fun.
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Fun People Theatre
If you fight you might lose, if you don’t you have already lost.
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Fighting Lost
Whenever there are great virtues, it’s a sure sign something’s wrong.
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Great Something Virtue Wrong
Unfortunate the country that needs heroes!
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Country Hero Needs
Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.
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Mistake Moving Wisdom
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
The righteous one has no sense of humor.
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Humor One Righteous Sense
Don’t accept the habitual as a natural thing. In times of disorder, of organized confusion, of de-humanized humanity, nothing should seem natural. Nothing should seem impossible to change.
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Confusion Humanity Impossible
Here today we huddle tight As the darkest heathens might The snow falls chilly on our skin The snow is forcing its way in. Hush, snow, come in with us to dwell: We were thrown out by Heaven as well.
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Fall Heaven Snow
The more innocent they are, the more they deserve to be shot.
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Deserve Innocent Shots
Schoenberg is too melodious for me, too sweet.
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Musical Schoenberg Sweet
Fearful is the seductive power of goodness.
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Fearful Goodness Seductive

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