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No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.

Bertolt Brecht

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
Oh! Moon of Alabama We now must say good-bye We’ve lost our good old mama And must have whiskey Oh, you know why!
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Alabama Bye Moon
Eats first, morals after.
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Eat Firsts Moral
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
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
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
Science knows only one commandment – contribute to science.
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Account Knows Science
For what’s the use of talking with a man who has a disease and thinks about the stars?
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Men Stars Thinking
Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.
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Mistake Moving Wisdom
You can’t write poems about trees when the woods are full of policemen.
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Tree Wood Writing
When the house of a great one collapses Many little ones are slain.
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Collapse House Littles
Even the most blockheaded bureaucrat, provided he loves peace, is a greater lover of the arts than any so-called art-lover who loves the arts of war.
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Even Greater Love Lover Peace Provided War
When evil-doing comes like falling rain, nobody calls out “stop!” When crimes begin to pile up they become invisible. When sufferings become unendurable the cries are no longer heard. The cries, too, fall like rain in summer.
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Become Doing Evil Invisible Suffering
Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.
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Poverty Wells Wise
But something’s missing.
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Lot Missing Something
A good soldier has his heart and soul in it. When he receives an order, he gets a hard on, and when he drives his lance through his enemy’s guts, he comes.
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Art Heart Order Philosophy

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