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There are men who struggle for a day and they are good. There are men who struggle for a year and they are better. There are men who struggle many years, and they are better still. But there are those who struggle all their lives: These are the indispensable ones.

Bertolt Brecht

Poverty makes you wise but it’s a curse.
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Curse Poverty Wise
Only bad generals need heroes.
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General Hero Needs
Schoenberg is too melodious for me, too sweet.
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Musical Schoenberg Sweet
First the grub, then the morals.
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Firsts Miscellaneous Moral
Recently my fingers have developed a prejudice against comparatives. They all follow this pattern: a squirrel is smaller than a tree; a bird is more musical than a tree.
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Bird Perspective Squirrels
The fate of man is man.
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Fate Men Trust
Who struggles can fail. Who doesn’t struggle has already failed!
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Diversity Justice Struggle
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
First feed the face, then talk right and wrong.
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Faces Firsts Talk
Who does Not Know the Truth, is simply a Fool… Yet who Knows the Truth and Calls it a Lie, is a Criminal.
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Criminals Doe Lying
We often do not know ourselves the grounds On which we act, though plain to others.
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Ground Knows Others Ourselves
You have to attack once the truth is too weak to defend itself.
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Defend Truth Weak
The first time it was reported that our friends were being butchered there was a cry of horror. Then a hundred were butchered. But when a thousand were butchered and there was no end to the butchery, a blanket of silence spread.
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Fall Rain Summer
If you join the rat race — you’re in the race of rats.
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Join Race Rat
Never believe on faith, see for yourself! What you yourself don’t learn you don’t know.
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Believe Knows Learn
It’s never too late for those whose time has come.
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Come Late never Too

There are men who struggle for a day and they are good. There are men who struggle for a year and they are better. There are men who struggle many years, and they are better still. But there are those who struggle all their lives: These are the indispensable ones.

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There are men who struggle for a day and they are good. There are men who struggle for a year and they are better. There are men who struggle many years, and they are better still. But there are those who struggle all their lives: These are the indispensable ones.

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