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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 was never decreed that a god mustn’t pay hotel bills.
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Bills Hotel Pay
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
As regards obstacles, the shortest distance between two points can be a curve.
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Curves Distance Two
All the gang of those who rule us Hope our quarrels never stop Helping them to split and fool us So they can remain on top.
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Fool Government Splits
Great sport begins at a point where it has ceased to be healthy.
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Great Healthy Sports
Don’t tell me peace has broken out.
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Broken Out Peace
Never believe on faith, see for yourself! What you yourself don’t learn you don’t know.
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Believe Knows Learn
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
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
The rain Never falls upwards. When the wound Stops hurting What hurts is The scar.
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Fall Hurt Rain
From the start it has been the theatre’s business to entertain people … it needs no other passport than fun.
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Fun People Theatre
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
Pleasures First look from morning’s window The rediscovered book Fascinated faces Snow, the change of the seasons
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Book Change Dog Morning
General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.
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Defect Men Thinking
First feed the face, then talk right and wrong.
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Faces Firsts Talk

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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