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Terrible is the temptation to be good.

Bertolt Brecht

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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Fall Rain Summer
Unfortunate the country that needs heroes!
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Country Hero Needs
It’s all right to hesitate if you then go ahead.
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Ahead Literature Travel
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
The human race tends to remember the abuses to which it has been subjected rather than the endearments. What’s left of kisses? Wounds, however, leave scars.
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Abuse Kissing Race
Go make yourself a plan And be a shining light. Then make yourself a second plan, For neither will come right.
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Light Planning Shining
Who does Not Know the Truth, is simply a Fool… Yet who Knows the Truth and Calls it a Lie, is a Criminal.
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Criminals Doe Lying
Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.
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Mistake Moving Wisdom
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
There must always be some who are brighter and some who are stupider, the latter make up for it by being better workers.
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Latter Stupidity Workers
It was never decreed that a god mustn’t pay hotel bills.
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Bills Hotel Pay
Terrible is the temptation to be good.
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Be Good Temptation Terrible
Art and science coincide insofar as both aim to improve the lives of men and women.
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Art Fashion Mean
Don’t tell me peace has broken out.
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Broken Out Peace
Science knows only one commandment – contribute to science.
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Account Knows Science
Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must also change. Nothing comes from nothing; the new comes from the old, but that is why it is new.
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Change Nothing Reality Representation

Terrible is the temptation to be good.

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