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Writers can’t write as fast as governments make wars; because to write demands thinking.

Bertolt Brecht

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
Never believe on faith, see for yourself! What you yourself don’t learn you don’t know.
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Believe Knows Learn
Spring is noticed, if at all By people sitting in railway trains.
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People Sitting Spring
Only bad generals need heroes.
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General Hero Needs
Who built the seven gates of Thebes? In the books are listed the names of kings. Did the kings heave up the building blocks?
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Block Book Kings
In my view, the great and complicated things that go on in the world cannot be adequately recognized by people who do not use every possible aid to understanding.
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Adequately Great Recognized Understanding
Everyone needs help from everyone.
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Collaboration Helping Needs
You don’t need to pray to God any more when there are storms in the sky, but you do have to be insured.
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God Sky Storm
Life is short and so is money.
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Cute Life Money Short
If art reflects life, it does so with special mirrors.
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Art Mirrors Special
Impact lies in the vicinity of mistakes.
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Impact Lying Mistakes
Fearful is the seductive power of goodness.
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Fearful Goodness Seductive
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
The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set a limit to infinite error.
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Errors Science Wisdom
What a miserable thing life is: you’re in clover; only the clover isn’t good enough.
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Gratitude Life Sadness
What’s breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank?
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Banking Breaking Literature Silence

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