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What’s breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank?

Bertolt Brecht

Show them the red tail of a comet, fill them with black terror, and they will all come running out of their houses and break their legs. But tell them one sensible proposition, and support it with seven reasons, and they will simply laugh in your face.
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Black Proposition Running Sensible Show Support
A man who sees another man on the street corner with only a stump for an arm will be so shocked the first time he’ll give him sixpence. But the second time it’ll only be a three penny bit. And if he sees him a third time, he’ll have him cold-bloodedly handed over to the police.
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Giving Men Police Six Street Time
Even the most blockheaded bureaucrat, provided he loves peace, is a greater lover of the arts than any so-called art-lover who loves the arts of war.
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Even Greater Love Lover Peace Provided War
General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.
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Defect Men Thinking
Would it not be simpler If the Government dissolved the people and elected another?
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Another Government People
…it is simplicity that is difficult to make.
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Design Difficult Simplicity Software
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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Fall Rain Summer
Everyone needs help from everyone.
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Collaboration Helping Needs
I’m in good form, taking no interest in things, neglecting clothes, meals, company, and feeling calm and stable as I write.
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Clothes Feelings Writing
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
One can describe the world of today to the people of today only if one describes it as capable of alteration.
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People Today World
It was never decreed that a god mustn’t pay hotel bills.
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Bills Hotel Pay
Poverty makes you wise but it’s a curse.
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Curse Poverty Wise
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
Spring is noticed, if at all By people sitting in railway trains.
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People Sitting Spring
Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must also change. Nothing comes from nothing; the new comes from the old, but that is why it is new.
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Change Nothing Reality Representation

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