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

Bertolt Brecht

He who is still laughing is he who hasn’t heard the terrible news.
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Laughing News Terrible
Things take indeed a wondrous turn When learned men do stoop to learn.
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Men Scholarship Turns
But something’s missing.
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Lot Missing Something
Go make yourself a plan And be a shining light. Then make yourself a second plan, For neither will come right.
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Light Planning Shining
Whenever there are great virtues, it’s a sure sign something’s wrong.
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Great Something Virtue Wrong
The storm that bends the birch trees Is held to be violent But how about the storm That bends the backs of the roadworkers?
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Storm Tree Violent
You may proclaim, good sirs, your fine philosophy But till you feed us, right and wrong can wait!
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May Philosophy Waiting
The human race tends to remember the abuses to which it has been subjected rather than the endearments. What’s left of kisses? Wounds, however, leave scars.
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Abuse Kissing Race
Then I will tell you something. I do not believe in it. Forty years among men has consistently taught me that they are not amenable to commonsense.
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Belief Men Running
Bank robbery is an initiative of amateurs. True professionals establish a bank.
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Bank Initiative Robbery
When you name yourself, you always name another.
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Always Another Names
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
He who speaks of enemies , himself is the enemy.
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Enemy Himself Speak
If art reflects life, it does so with special mirrors.
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Art Mirrors Special
Oh! Moon of Alabama We now must say good-bye We’ve lost our good old mama And must have whiskey Oh, you know why!
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Alabama Bye Moon
What rapture, oh, it is to know A good thing when you see it And having seen a good thing, oh, What rapture ’tis to flee it.
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Good Knows Rapture Things

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