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When the leaders speak of peace, the common folk know war is coming.

Bertolt Brecht

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
Don’t be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.
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Anticipation Death Life
The mill wheel turns, it turns forever, though what is uppermost remains not so.
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Forever Mills Wheels
Art and science work in quite different ways: agreed. But, bad as it may sound, I have to admit that I cannot get along as an artist without the use of one or two sciences. …
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Art Science Views Work
Erst kommt das Fressen, dann kommt die Moral.
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Anger Dies Moral
For art to be ‘unpolitical’ means only to ally itself with the ‘ruling’ group.
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Allies Art Mean
For once you must try not to shirk the facts: mankind is kept alive by bestial acts.
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Alive Sex Trying
He who is still laughing is he who hasn’t heard the terrible news.
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Laughing News Terrible
Terrible is the temptation to be good.
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Be Good Temptation Terrible
When the leaders speak of peace The common folk know That war is coming When the leaders curse war
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Common Folk Lying War
It’s all right to hesitate if you then go ahead.
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Ahead Literature Travel
No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.
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Demand Literature Long
Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.
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Mistake Moving Wisdom
If you join the rat race — you’re in the race of rats.
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Join Race Rat
There must always be some who are brighter and some who are stupider, the latter make up for it by being better workers.
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Latter Stupidity Workers
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

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