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Who has good luck is good, Who has bad luck is bad.

Bertolt Brecht

There are some with brains and some without. It makes for a better division of labour.
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Brain Division Labor
I am a playwright. I show What I have seen. In the man markets I have seen how men are traded. That I show, I, the playwright.
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Men Show Traded
In the contradiction lies the hope.
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Contradiction Hope Lying
When the house of a great one collapses Many little ones are slain.
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Collapse House Littles
Why be a man when you can be a success?
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Inspirational Life Motivational
If you fight you might lose, if you don’t you have already lost.
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Fighting Lost
But something’s missing.
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Lot Missing Something
Let nothing be called natural In an age of bloody confusion, Ordered disorder, planned caprice, And dehumanized humanity, lest all things Be held unalterable!
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Confusion Humanity Nature
Don’t accept the habitual as a natural thing. In times of disorder, of organized confusion, of de-humanized humanity, nothing should seem natural. Nothing should seem impossible to change.
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Confusion Humanity Impossible
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
None will improve your lot If you yourself do not.
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Inspirational Life Motivational
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
He who fights, can lose. He who doesn’t fight, has already lost.
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Fighting Loses Lost
When something seems ‘the most obvious thing in the world’ it means that any attempt to understand the world has been given up.
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Mean World
Life is short and so is money.
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Cute Life Money Short
Oh why do we not say the important things, it would be so easy, and we are damned because we do not.
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Dammed Easy Important

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