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To those who does not know the world is on fire, I have nothing to say.

Bertolt Brecht

When something seems ‘the most obvious thing in the world’ it means that any attempt to understand the world has been given up.
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Mean World
When the praying does no good, insurance does help.
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Helping Insurance Praying
I don’t like where I’m going and I don’t like where I’ve been. Why am I in a hurry?
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Going Hurry Like
Fearful is the seductive power of goodness.
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Fearful Goodness Seductive
It was never decreed that a god mustn’t pay hotel bills.
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Bills Hotel Pay
I opened the man’s skull and messed about with his brains. I saw how they patched fellows up, so as to cart them back to the Front as quickly as they could.
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Brains Cart Front Patch Skull
General, your tank is a powerful vehicle it smashes down forests and crushes a hundred men. but it has one defect: it needs a driver.
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Crush Men Powerful
People cannot remain good unless good is expected of them.
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Expected Good People Remain
Those who take the most from the table, teach contentment. Those for whom the taxes are destined, demand sacrifice. Those who eat their fill, speak to the hungry, of wonderful times to come. Those who lead the country into the abyss, call ruling difficult, for ordinary folk.
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Contentment Country Sacrifice
Love is the wish to give, not to receive.
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Giving Love Wish
Don’t be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.
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Anticipation Death Life
Right is its own defense.
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Defense Literature Own Right
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
We often do not know ourselves the grounds On which we act, though plain to others.
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Ground Knows Others Ourselves
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
The newspaper The dog Dialectics Showering, swimming Old music Comfortable shoes Comprehension New music Writing, planting Traveling Singing Being friendly
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Comfortable Dog Newspaper Planting Shoe Singing

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