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Something ignoble, loathsome, undignified attends all associations between people and has been transferred to all objects, dwelling, tools, even the landscape itself.

Bertolt Brecht

Whenever there are great virtues, it’s a sure sign something’s wrong.
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Great Something Virtue Wrong
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
Never believe on faith, see for yourself! What you yourself don’t learn you don’t know.
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Believe Knows Learn
Something ignoble, loathsome, undignified attends all associations between people and has been transferred to all objects, dwelling, tools, even the landscape itself.
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Dwelling Object People Tool
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
Nowadays, anyone who wishes to combat lies and ignorance and to write the truth must overcome at least five difficulties.
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Lying Running Writing
It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk.
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Banker Clerk Fog
Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.
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Mistake Moving Wisdom
The right to happiness is fundamental; men live so little time and die alone.
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Alone Happiness Joy Men
Bank robbery is an initiative of amateurs. True professionals establish a bank.
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Bank Initiative Robbery
Erst kommt das Fressen, dann kommt die Moral.
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Anger Dies Moral
When the praying does no good, insurance does help.
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Helping Insurance Praying
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
Come in, dear wind, and be our guest You too have neither home nor rest.
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Guest Home Wind
General, your bomber is powerful. It flies faster than a storm and carries more than an elephant. But it has one defect: It needs a mechanic. General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.
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Bother Carries Defect Faster General Man Storm
Little changes are the enemies of great changes.
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Change Enemy Littles

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