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

Bertolt Brecht

As regards obstacles, the shortest distance between two points can be a curve.
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Curves Distance Two
When the praying does no good, insurance does help.
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Helping Insurance Praying
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
If you wan to steal money, don’t rob a bank – open one.
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Money One Open Stealing
No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.
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Demand Literature Long
Each of us is the strongest one in his or her own skin. Characteristics should take off their hats to one another, instead of spitting in each other’s faces.
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Characteristics Each Face Spitting
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
When the house of a great one collapses Many little ones are slain.
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Collapse House Littles
For the task assigned them Men aren’t smart enough or sly Any rogue can blind them With a clever lie.
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Clever Lying Smart
Temptation to behave is terrible.
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Literature Temptation Terrible
There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.
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Leadership Numbers Two
The fanatics for progress often have too little appreciation of the existing.
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Appreciation Littles Progress
The storm that bends the birch trees Is held to be violent But how about the storm That bends the backs of the roadworkers?
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Storm Tree Violent
Come in, dear wind, and be our guest You too have neither home nor rest.
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Guest Home Wind
The worst illiterate is the political illiterate. He hears nothing, sees nothing, takes no part in political life. He doesn’t seem to know that the cost of living, the price of beans, of flour, of rent, of medicines all depend on political decisions.
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Children Hate Ignorance
One cannot be arraigned for declaring a war, which every ruler has to do once in a while, but only for running a war badly.
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Declaring Running War

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