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The fanatics for progress often have too little appreciation of the existing.

Bertolt Brecht

When something seems ‘the most obvious thing in the world’ it means that any attempt to understand the world has been given up.
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Mean World
Don’t tell me peace has broken out.
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Broken Out Peace
If you fight you might lose, if you don’t you have already lost.
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Fighting Lost
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
First the pork chops, then morality
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Firsts Morality Pork
People who fight may lose. People who do not fight have already lost.
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Fighting May People
Temptation to behave is terrible.
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Literature Temptation Terrible
It is not enough to demand insight and informative images of reality from the theater. Our theater must stimulate a desire for understanding, a delight in changing reality.
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Desire Reality Understanding
Who fights may lose, but who does not fight has lost already.
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Already Fighting May
He who fights, can lose. He who doesn’t fight, has already lost.
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Fighting Loses Lost
As regards obstacles, the shortest distance between two points can be a curve.
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Curves Distance Two
Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.
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Poverty Wells Wise
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
Even hatred of vileness Distorts a mans features.
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Features Hatred
Alas,we who wanted kindness, could not be kind ourselves.
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Be Kind Kindness Wanted
For what’s the use of talking with a man who has a disease and thinks about the stars?
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Men Stars Thinking

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