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General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.

Bertolt Brecht

None will improve your lot If you yourself do not.
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Inspirational Life Motivational
People are too durable, that’s their main trouble. They can do too much to themselves, they last too long.
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Long People Silly
One forgets too easily the difference between a man and his image, and that there is none between the sound of his voice on the screen and in real life.
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Men Real Screen Voice
Suppose they gave a war, and nobody came? Why then, the war would come to you!
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Politics Suppose War
Writers can’t write as fast as governments make wars; because to write demands thinking.
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Thinking War Writing
The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set a limit to infinite error.
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Errors Science Wisdom
When the praying does no good, insurance does help.
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Helping Insurance Praying
No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.
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Demand Literature Long
Love is the wish to give, not to receive.
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Giving Love Wish
First the pork chops, then morality
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Firsts Morality Pork
I don’t like where I’m going and I don’t like where I’ve been. Why am I in a hurry?
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Going Hurry Like
Though the rich of this earth find no difficulty in creating misery, they can’t bear to see it.
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Bears Creating Earth
Whenever there are great virtues, it’s a sure sign something’s wrong.
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Great Something Virtue Wrong
He who fights, can lose. He who doesn’t fight, has already lost.
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Fighting Loses Lost
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
When evil-doing comes like falling rain, nobody calls out “stop!” When crimes begin to pile up they become invisible. When sufferings become unendurable the cries are no longer heard. The cries, too, fall like rain in summer.
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Become Doing Evil Invisible Suffering

General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.

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