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It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk.

Bertolt Brecht

The fanatics for progress often have too little appreciation of the existing.
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Appreciation Littles Progress
Terrible is the temptation to be good.
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Be Good Temptation Terrible
Right is its own defense.
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Defense Literature Own Right
Of all the works of man I like best Those which have been used. The copper pots with their dents and flattened edges The knives and forks whose wooden handles Have been worn away by many hands: such forms Seemed to me the noblest.
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Approaching Folk Hands Knives Men
Who struggles can fail. Who doesn’t struggle has already failed!
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Diversity Justice Struggle
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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Bird Perspective Squirrels
I opened the man’s skull and messed about with his brains. I saw how they patched fellows up, so as to cart them back to the Front as quickly as they could.
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Brains Cart Front Patch Skull
When the leaders speak of peace, the common folk know war is coming.
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Common Folk Leader War
Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods.
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Reality Taken Writing
Love is also like a coconut which is good while it is fresh, but you have to spit it out when the juice is gone, what’s left tastes bitter.
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Gone Love Sad Taste
There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.
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Leadership Numbers Two
Temptation to behave is terrible.
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Literature Temptation Terrible
Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon.
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Book Men Weapons
Schoenberg is too melodious for me, too sweet.
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Musical Schoenberg Sweet
It was never decreed that a god mustn’t pay hotel bills.
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Bills Hotel Pay
On thinking about Hell, I gather My brother Shelley found it was a place Much like the city of London.
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Brother Cities Thinking

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