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Spring is noticed, if at all By people sitting in railway trains.

Bertolt Brecht

For the task assigned them Men aren’t smart enough or sly Any rogue can blind them With a clever lie.
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Clever Lying Smart
A man who strains himself on the stage is bound, if he is any good, to strain all the people sitting in the stalls.
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Acting Men People
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
Unhappiness doesn’t grow on the chest like leprosy. Poverty won’t fall off the roof like a loose tile, no; poverty and unhappiness are man’s doing.
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Fall Men Tiles
General, your tank is a powerful vehicle It smashes down forests and crushes a hundred men. But it has one defect: It needs a driver.
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Crush Men Powerful
Great sport begins at a point where it has ceased to be healthy.
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Great Healthy Sports
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
Realist writing, of which history offers many widely varying examples, is likewise conditioned by the question of how, when and for what class it is made use of.
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Condition Example Made Realist
From the cradle to the coffin underwear comes first.
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Clean Coffins Literature Underwear
Only bad generals need heroes.
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General Hero Needs
Those who have had no share in the good fortunes of the mighty Often have a share in their misfortunes.
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Fortune Good Mighty Share
Sometimes it’s more important to be human, than to have good taste.
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Important Sometimes Taste
In the contradiction lies the hope.
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Contradiction Hope Lying
Bank robbery is an initiative of amateurs. True professionals establish a bank.
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Bank Initiative Robbery
In the dark times Will there also be singing? Yes, there will also be singing. About the dark times.
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Dark Inspirational Singing
Schoenberg is too melodious for me, too sweet.
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Musical Schoenberg Sweet

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