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People remain what they are even if their faces fall apart.

Bertolt Brecht

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
I Who live in Los Angeles and not in London Find, on thinking about Hell, that it must be Still more like Los Angeles.
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About Country Live Place
He who speaks of enemies , himself is the enemy.
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Enemy Himself Speak
I don’t trust him. We’re friends.
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Friendship Negative Trust
Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.
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Mistake Moving Wisdom
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 simplicity that is difficult to make.
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Design Difficult Simplicity Software
Everyone needs help from everyone.
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Collaboration Helping Needs
First the grub, then the morals.
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Firsts Miscellaneous Moral
For art to be ‘unpolitical’ means only to ally itself with the ‘ruling’ group.
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Allies Art Mean
People who understand everything get no stories.
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People Stories Understand
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
First feed the face, then talk right and wrong.
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Faces Firsts Talk
Oh why do we not say the important things, it would be so easy, and we are damned because we do not.
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Dammed Easy Important
Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.
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Death Fear Life
You don’t need to pray to God any more when there are storms in the sky, but you do have to be insured.
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God Sky Storm

People remain what they are even if their faces fall apart.

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