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Never believe on faith, see for yourself! What you yourself don’t learn you don’t know.

Bertolt Brecht

The right to happiness is fundamental; men live so little time and die alone.
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Alone Happiness Joy Men
Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods.
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Reality Taken Writing
Great sport begins at a point where it has ceased to be healthy.
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Great Healthy Sports
Those who take the most from the table, teach contentment. Those for whom the taxes are destined, demand sacrifice. Those who eat their fill, speak to the hungry, of wonderful times to come. Those who lead the country into the abyss, call ruling difficult, for ordinary folk.
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Contentment Country Sacrifice
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
Grub first, then ethics.
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Cooking First Food
Even hatred of vileness Distorts a mans features.
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Features Hatred
There are a few things that’ll move people to pity, a few, but the trouble is, when they’ve been used several times, they no longer work.
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Moving People Trouble
All artforms are in the service of the greatest of all arts: the art of living.
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Art Living Service
Firebugs dragging their gasoline bottles are approaching the Academy of Arts, with a grin. And so, instead of embracing them, let us demand the freedom of the elbow to knock the bottles out of their filthy hands.
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Art Embrace Hands War
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
Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.
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Mistake Moving Wisdom
Oh why do we not say the important things, it would be so easy, and we are damned because we do not.
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Dammed Easy Important
I am a playwright. I show What I have seen. In the man markets I have seen how men are traded. That I show, I, the playwright.
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Men Show Traded
It isn’t important to come out on top, what matters is to be the one who comes out alive.
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Acceptance Important Matters
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

Never believe on faith, see for yourself! What you yourself don’t learn you don’t know.

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Never believe on faith, see for yourself! What you yourself don’t learn you don’t know.

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