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One forgets too easily the difference between a man and his image, and that there is none between the sound of his voice on the screen and in real life.

Bertolt Brecht

The more innocent they are, the more they deserve to be shot.
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Deserve Innocent Shots
Who has good luck is good, Who has bad luck is bad.
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Bad Good Luck
Poverty makes you wise but it’s a curse.
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Curse Poverty Wise
He who fights, can lose. He who doesn’t fight, has already lost.
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Fighting Loses Lost
Though the rich of this earth find no difficulty in creating misery, they can’t bear to see it.
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Bears Creating Earth
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
People cannot remain good unless good is expected of them.
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Expected Good People Remain
Art is not a mirror. Art is a hammer.
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Art Hammers Mirrors
The fanatics for progress often have too little appreciation of the existing.
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Appreciation Littles Progress
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
People remain what they are even if their faces fall apart.
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Faces Fall People
You can make a fresh start with your final breath.
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Breaths Finals Fresh Start
Bank robbery is an initiative of amateurs. True professionals establish a bank.
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Bank Initiative Robbery
There are a few things that’ll move people to pity, a few, but the trouble is, when they’ve been used several times, they no longer work.
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Moving People Trouble
People are too durable, that’s their main trouble. They can do too much to themselves, they last too long.
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Long People Silly
When the house of a great one collapses Many little ones are slain.
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Collapse House Littles
Come in, dear wind, and be our guest You too have neither home nor rest.
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Guest Home Wind
What a miserable thing life is: you’re in clover; only the clover isn’t good enough.
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Gratitude Life Sadness
There are times when you have to choose between being human and having good taste.
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Being Good Human Nature Taste
First the pork chops, then morality
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Firsts Morality Pork
Some party hack decreed that the people had lost the government’s confidence and could only regain it with redoubled effort. If that is the case, would it not be simpler, If the government simply dissolved the people And elected another?
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Government Party People
The right to happiness is fundamental; men live so little time and die alone.
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Alone Happiness Joy Men
If you join the rat race — you’re in the race of rats.
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Join Race Rat
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
To those who does not know the world is on fire, I have nothing to say.
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Fire Nothing World
Whenever there are great virtues, it’s a sure sign something’s wrong.
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Great Something Virtue Wrong
Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.
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Mistake Moving Wisdom

One forgets too easily the difference between a man and his image, and that there is none between the sound of his voice on the screen and in real life.

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One forgets too easily the difference between a man and his image, and that there is none between the sound of his voice on the screen and in real life.

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