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

Bertolt Brecht

Come in, dear wind, and be our guest You too have neither home nor rest.
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Guest Home Wind
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
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
None will improve your lot If you yourself do not.
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Inspirational Life Motivational
…it is simplicity that is difficult to make.
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Design Difficult Simplicity Software
Their peace and their war Are like wind and storm. War grows from their peace.
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Peace Storm War Wind
He who fights, can lose. He who doesn’t fight, has already lost.
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Fighting Loses Lost
What kind of times are they, when A talk about trees is almost a crime Because it implies silence about so many horrors?
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Kind Silence Tree
Right is its own defense.
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Defense Literature Own Right
Show them the red tail of a comet, fill them with black terror, and they will all come running out of their houses and break their legs. But tell them one sensible proposition, and support it with seven reasons, and they will simply laugh in your face.
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Black Proposition Running Sensible Show Support
Mixing one’s wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.
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Mistake Wine Wisdom
But something’s missing.
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Lot Missing Something
Who has good luck is good, Who has bad luck is bad.
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Bad Good Luck
There are times when you have to choose between being human and having good taste.
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Being Good Human Nature Taste
Don’t tell me peace has broken out.
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Broken Out Peace
Erst kommt das Fressen, dann kommt die Moral.
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Anger Dies Moral

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