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Sometimes it’s more important to be human, than to have good taste.

Bertolt Brecht

I don’t like where I’m going and I don’t like where I’ve been. Why am I in a hurry?
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Going Hurry Like
Everyone needs help from everyone.
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Collaboration Helping Needs
Who has good luck is good, Who has bad luck is bad.
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Bad Good Luck
Go make yourself a plan And be a shining light. Then make yourself a second plan, For neither will come right.
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Light Planning Shining
Bank robbery is an initiative of amateurs. True professionals establish a bank.
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Bank Initiative Robbery
But something’s missing.
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Lot Missing Something
General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.
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Defect Men Thinking
Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
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Change Moving Stay Strong
Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes.
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Happiness Hero Land
Sometimes it’s more important to be human, than to have good taste.
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Important Sometimes Taste
I was called up in the war and sent to a hospital. I dressed wounds, applied iodine, gave enemas, did blood transfusions. If the doctor ordered: “Brecht, amputate a leg!”, I would reply, “Certainly, Your Excellency!”, and cut off the leg. If I was told, “Perform a trepanning!”
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Cutting Men Transfusion War
Here today we huddle tight As the darkest heathens might The snow falls chilly on our skin The snow is forcing its way in. Hush, snow, come in with us to dwell: We were thrown out by Heaven as well.
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Fall Heaven Snow
What a miserable thing life is: you’re in clover; only the clover isn’t good enough.
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Gratitude Life Sadness
Schoenberg is too melodious for me, too sweet.
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Musical Schoenberg Sweet
If you join the rat race — you’re in the race of rats.
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Join Race Rat
Some party hack decreed that the people had lost the government’s confidence and could only regain it with redoubled effort. If that is the case, would it not be simpler, If the government simply dissolved the people And elected another?
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Government Party People

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