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What rapture, oh, it is to know A good thing when you see it And having seen a good thing, oh, What rapture ’tis to flee it.

Bertolt Brecht

If you wan to steal money, don’t rob a bank – open one.
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Money One Open Stealing
No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.
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Demand Literature Long
Mixing one’s wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.
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Mistake Wine Wisdom
When the praying does no good, insurance does help.
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Helping Insurance Praying
The right to happiness is fundamental; men live so little time and die alone.
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Alone Happiness Joy Men
Sin is what is new, strong, surprising, strange. The theatre must take an interest in sin if the young are to be able to go there.
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Able Strong Theatre
Nowadays, anyone who wishes to combat lies and ignorance and to write the truth must overcome at least five difficulties.
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Lying Running Writing
One can describe the world of today to the people of today only if one describes it as capable of alteration.
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People Today World
Everyone needs help from everyone.
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Collaboration Helping Needs
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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Great Healthy Sports
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
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
The human race tends to remember the abuses to which it has been subjected rather than the endearments. What’s left of kisses? Wounds, however, leave scars.
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Abuse Kissing Race
Would it not be simpler If the Government dissolved the people and elected another?
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Another Government People
People who fight may lose. People who do not fight have already lost.
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Fighting May People

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