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Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.

Bertolt Brecht

What a miserable thing life is: you’re in clover; only the clover isn’t good enough.
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Gratitude Life Sadness
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
As regards obstacles, the shortest distance between two points can be a curve.
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Curves Distance Two
Would it not be simpler If the Government dissolved the people and elected another?
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Another Government People
The alienation effect in German epic theater is achieved not only through the actors, but also through music (chorus and song) andsets (transparencies, film strips, etc.). Its main purpose is to place the staged events in their historical context.
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Art Epic Film History Purpose Song
Unfortunate the country that needs heroes!
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Country Hero Needs
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
The first time it was reported that our friends were being butchered there was a cry of horror. Then a hundred were butchered. But when a thousand were butchered and there was no end to the butchery, a blanket of silence spread.
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Fall Rain Summer
The fanatics for progress often have too little appreciation of the existing.
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Appreciation Littles Progress
Those against politics are in favor of the politics inflicted upon them.
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Democracy Favors Freedom
The headlong stream is termed violent But the river bed hemming it in is Termed violent by no one.
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Bed Rivers Violent
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
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
Who struggles can fail. Who doesn’t struggle has already failed!
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Diversity Justice Struggle
For what’s the use of talking with a man who has a disease and thinks about the stars?
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Men Stars Thinking
One cannot be arraigned for declaring a war, which every ruler has to do once in a while, but only for running a war badly.
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Declaring Running War

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