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

Bertolt Brecht

Art and science coincide insofar as both aim to improve the lives of men and women.
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Art Fashion Mean
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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Adequately Great Recognized Understanding
Firebugs dragging their gasoline bottles are approaching the Academy of Arts, with a grin. And so, instead of embracing them, let us demand the freedom of the elbow to knock the bottles out of their filthy hands.
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Art Embrace Hands War
The worst illiterate is the political illiterate. He hears nothing, sees nothing, takes no part in political life. He doesn’t seem to know that the cost of living, the price of beans, of flour, of rent, of medicines all depend on political decisions.
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Children Hate Ignorance
Sometimes it’s more important to be human, than to have good taste.
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Important Sometimes Taste
Alas,we who wanted kindness, could not be kind ourselves.
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Be Kind Kindness Wanted
Mixing one’s wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.
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Mistake Wine Wisdom
There are men who struggle for a day and they are good. There are men who struggle for a year and they are better. There are men who struggle many years, and they are better still. But there are those who struggle all their lives: These are the indispensable ones.
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Men Struggle Years
There are times when you have to choose between being human and having good taste.
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Being Good Human Nature Taste
It was never decreed that a god mustn’t pay hotel bills.
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Bills Hotel Pay
General, your tank is a powerful vehicle it smashes down forests and crushes a hundred men. but it has one defect: it needs a driver.
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Crush Men Powerful
Who has good luck is good, Who has bad luck is bad.
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Bad Good Luck
You don’t need to pray to God any more when there are storms in the sky, but you do have to be insured.
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God Sky Storm
Why be a man when you can be a success?
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Inspirational Life Motivational
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
The fate of man is man.
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Fate Men Trust
He who speaks of enemies , himself is the enemy.
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Enemy Himself Speak
Great sport begins at a point where it has ceased to be healthy.
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Great Healthy Sports
When you name yourself, you always name another.
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Always Another Names
If you don’t have fun, you don’t have a show.
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Fun Inspirational Shows
But something’s missing.
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Lot Missing Something
Writers can’t write as fast as governments make wars; because to write demands thinking.
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Thinking War Writing
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
Right is its own defense.
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Defense Literature Own Right
The newspaper The dog Dialectics Showering, swimming Old music Comfortable shoes Comprehension New music Writing, planting Traveling Singing Being friendly
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Comfortable Dog Newspaper Planting Shoe Singing
When the leaders speak of peace, the common folk know war is coming.
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Common Folk Leader War
The mill wheel turns, it turns forever, though what is uppermost remains not so.
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Forever Mills Wheels

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