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The defeats and victories of the fellows at the top aren’t always defeats and victories for the fellows at the bottom.

Bertolt Brecht

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
It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk.
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Banker Clerk Fog
The headlong stream is termed violent But the river bed hemming it in is Termed violent by no one.
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Bed Rivers Violent
It is not enough to demand insight and informative images of reality from the theater. Our theater must stimulate a desire for understanding, a delight in changing reality.
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Desire Reality Understanding
The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn When teachers themselves are taught to learn.
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Crazy Literature Teacher
Eats first, morals after.
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Eat Firsts Moral
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
Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon.
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Book Men Weapons
Things take indeed a wondrous turn When learned men do stoop to learn.
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Men Scholarship Turns
No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.
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Demand Literature Long
When the wound/ No longer hurts/ The scar does.
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Doe Hurt Scar
Show them the red tail of a comet, fill them with black terror, and they will all come running out of their houses and break their legs. But tell them one sensible proposition, and support it with seven reasons, and they will simply laugh in your face.
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Black Proposition Running Sensible Show Support
If you wan to steal money, don’t rob a bank – open one.
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Money One Open Stealing
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
Suppose they gave a war, and nobody came? Why then, the war would come to you!
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Politics Suppose War
For the task assigned them Men aren’t smart enough or sly Any rogue can blind them With a clever lie.
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Clever Lying Smart

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