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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 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
Art and science coincide insofar as both aim to improve the lives of men and women.
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Art Fashion Mean
It isn’t important to come out on top, what matters is to be the one who comes out alive.
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Acceptance Important Matters
I Who live in Los Angeles and not in London Find, on thinking about Hell, that it must be Still more like Los Angeles.
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About Country Live Place
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
Love is the wish to give, not to receive.
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Giving Love Wish
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
Grub first, then ethics.
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Cooking First Food
Life is short and so is money.
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Cute Life Money Short
Of all the works of man I like best Those which have been used. The copper pots with their dents and flattened edges The knives and forks whose wooden handles Have been worn away by many hands: such forms Seemed to me the noblest.
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Approaching Folk Hands Knives Men
First the pork chops, then morality
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Firsts Morality Pork
What a miserable thing life is: you’re in clover; only the clover isn’t good enough.
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Gratitude Life Sadness
A man who sees another man on the street corner with only a stump for an arm will be so shocked the first time he’ll give him sixpence. But the second time it’ll only be a three penny bit. And if he sees him a third time, he’ll have him cold-bloodedly handed over to the police.
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Giving Men Police Six Street Time
The mobilization order is already written out. Every day, to earn my daily bread I go to the market where lies are bought Hopefully I take up my place among the sellers.
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Eran Hopefully Mobilization Out Place Seller Written
Temptation to behave is terrible.
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Literature Temptation Terrible
Alas,we who wanted kindness, could not be kind ourselves.
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Be Kind Kindness Wanted

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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