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The finest plans are always ruined by the littleness of those who ought to carry them out, for emperor himself can actually be nothing.

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
There are some with brains and some without. It makes for a better division of labour.
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Brain Division Labor
Fearful is the seductive power of goodness.
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Fearful Goodness Seductive
What they could do with ’round here is a good war. What else can you expect with peace running wild all over the place? You know what the trouble with peace is? No organization.
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Peace Running War
To those who does not know the world is on fire, I have nothing to say.
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Fire Nothing World
People who fight may lose. People who do not fight have already lost.
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Fighting May People
People are too durable, that’s their main trouble. They can do too much to themselves, they last too long.
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Long People Silly
A man who strains himself on the stage is bound, if he is any good, to strain all the people sitting in the stalls.
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Acting Men People
One forgets too easily the difference between a man and his image, and that there is none between the sound of his voice on the screen and in real life.
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Men Real Screen Voice
Something ignoble, loathsome, undignified attends all associations between people and has been transferred to all objects, dwelling, tools, even the landscape itself.
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Dwelling Object People Tool
One cannot be arraigned for declaring a war, which every ruler has to do once in a while, but only for running a war badly.
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Declaring Running War
Why be a man when you can be a success?
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Inspirational Life Motivational
You can’t write poems about trees when the woods are full of policemen.
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Tree Wood Writing
We often do not know ourselves the grounds On which we act, though plain to others.
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Ground Knows Others Ourselves
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
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 finest plans are always ruined by the littleness of those who ought to carry them out, for emperor himself can actually be nothing.

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