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Great sport begins at a point where it has ceased to be healthy.

Bertolt Brecht

Each of us is the strongest one in his or her own skin. Characteristics should take off their hats to one another, instead of spitting in each other’s faces.
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Characteristics Each Face Spitting
In my view, the great and complicated things that go on in the world cannot be adequately recognized by people who do not use every possible aid to understanding.
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Adequately Great Recognized Understanding
Love is also like a coconut which is good while it is fresh, but you have to spit it out when the juice is gone, what’s left tastes bitter.
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Gone Love Sad Taste
Pleasures First look from morning’s window The rediscovered book Fascinated faces Snow, the change of the seasons
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Book Change Dog Morning
He who speaks of enemies , himself is the enemy.
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Enemy Himself Speak
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
Who has good luck is good, Who has bad luck is bad.
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Bad Good Luck
It’s never too late for those whose time has come.
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Come Late never Too
I was called up in the war and sent to a hospital. I dressed wounds, applied iodine, gave enemas, did blood transfusions. If the doctor ordered: “Brecht, amputate a leg!”, I would reply, “Certainly, Your Excellency!”, and cut off the leg. If I was told, “Perform a trepanning!”
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Cutting Men Transfusion War
When the wound/ No longer hurts/ The scar does.
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Doe Hurt Scar
The right to happiness is fundamental; men live so little time and die alone.
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Alone Happiness Joy Men
It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk.
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Banker Clerk Fog
When evil-doing comes like falling rain, nobody calls out “stop!” 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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Become Doing Evil Invisible Suffering
Love is the wish to give, not to receive.
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Giving Love Wish
Life is short and so is money.
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Cute Life Money Short
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

Great sport begins at a point where it has ceased to be healthy.

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