Even hatred of vileness Distorts a mans features.
BERTOLT BRECHTIt is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk.
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Those who take the most from the table, teach contentment. Those for whom the taxes are destined, demand sacrifice. Those who eat their fill, speak to the hungry, of wonderful times to come. Those who lead the country into the abyss, call ruling difficult, for ordinary folk.
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People are too durable, that’s their main trouble. They can do too much to themselves, they last too long.
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Life is short and so is money.
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Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods.
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A man who strains himself on the stage is bound, if he is any good, to strain all the people sitting in the stalls.
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Recently my fingers have developed a prejudice against comparatives. They all follow this pattern: a squirrel is smaller than a tree; a bird is more musical than a tree.
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Little changes are the enemies of great changes.
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Right is its own defense.
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Though the rich of this earth find no difficulty in creating misery, they can’t bear to see it.
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It isn’t important to come out on top, what matters is to be the one who comes out alive.
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The newspaper The dog Dialectics Showering, swimming Old music Comfortable shoes Comprehension New music Writing, planting Traveling Singing Being friendly
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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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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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Nowadays, anyone who wishes to combat lies and ignorance and to write the truth must overcome at least five difficulties.
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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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