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We often do not know ourselves the grounds On which we act, though plain to others.

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
He who fights, can lose. He who doesn’t fight, has already lost.
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Fighting Loses Lost
Schoenberg is too melodious for me, too sweet.
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Musical Schoenberg Sweet
Right is its own defense.
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Defense Literature Own Right
The righteous one has no sense of humor.
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Humor One Righteous Sense
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
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
Great sport begins at a point where it has ceased to be healthy.
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Great Healthy Sports
You can make a fresh start with your final breath.
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Breaths Finals Fresh Start
Boy Meets Girl, So What?
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Boys Broken Girl Heart
Mixing one’s wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.
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Mistake Wine Wisdom
Don’t be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.
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Anticipation Death Life
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
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
Realist writing, of which history offers many widely varying examples, is likewise conditioned by the question of how, when and for what class it is made use of.
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Condition Example Made Realist
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
When the praying does no good, insurance does help.
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Helping Insurance Praying
Today every invention is received with a cry of triumph which soon turns into a cry of fear.
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Fear Today Triumph
Bank robbery is an initiative of amateurs. True professionals establish a bank.
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Bank Initiative Robbery
Let nothing be called natural In an age of bloody confusion, Ordered disorder, planned caprice, And dehumanized humanity, lest all things Be held unalterable!
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Confusion Humanity Nature
To those who does not know the world is on fire, I have nothing to say.
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Fire Nothing World
The more innocent they are, the more they deserve to be shot.
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Deserve Innocent Shots
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
Grub first, then ethics.
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Cooking First Food
The defeats and victories of the fellows at the top aren’t always defeats and victories for the fellows at the bottom.
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Defeat Sunset Victory
You can’t write poems about trees when the woods are full of policemen.
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Tree Wood Writing
Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.
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Mistake Moving Wisdom

We often do not know ourselves the grounds On which we act, though plain to others.

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