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

Bertolt Brecht

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’s breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank?
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Banking Breaking Literature Silence
Impact lies in the vicinity of mistakes.
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Impact Lying Mistakes
The right to happiness is fundamental; men live so little time and die alone.
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Alone Happiness Joy Men
Why be a man when you can be a success?
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Inspirational Life Motivational
Only bad generals need heroes.
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General Hero Needs
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
Their peace and their war Are like wind and storm. War grows from their peace.
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Peace Storm War 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 the leaders speak of peace, the common folk know war is coming.
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Common Folk Leader War
Then I will tell you something. I do not believe in it. Forty years among men has consistently taught me that they are not amenable to commonsense.
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Belief Men Running
What they could do with ’round here is a good war. What else can you expect with peace running wild all over the place? You know what the trouble with peace is? No organization.
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Peace Running War
Though the rich of this earth find no difficulty in creating misery, they can’t bear to see it.
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Bears Creating Earth
Oh! Moon of Alabama We now must say good-bye We’ve lost our good old mama And must have whiskey Oh, you know why!
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Alabama Bye Moon
The fanatics for progress often have too little appreciation of the existing.
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Appreciation Littles Progress
Love is also like a coconut which is good while it is fresh, but you have to spit it out when the juice is gone, what’s left tastes bitter.
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Gone Love Sad Taste
Terrible is the temptation to be good.
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Be Good Temptation Terrible
The righteous one has no sense of humor.
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Humor One Righteous Sense
Temptation to behave is terrible.
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Literature Temptation Terrible
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
If art reflects life, it does so with special mirrors.
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Art Mirrors Special
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
The mobilization order is already written out. Every day, to earn my daily bread I go to the market where lies are bought Hopefully I take up my place among the sellers.
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Eran Hopefully Mobilization Out Place Seller Written
Everyone needs help from everyone.
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Collaboration Helping Needs
For what’s the use of talking with a man who has a disease and thinks about the stars?
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Men Stars Thinking
The defeats and victories of the fellows at the top aren’t always defeats and victories for the fellows at the bottom.
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Defeat Sunset Victory
Of all the works of man I like best Those which have been used. The copper pots with their dents and flattened edges The knives and forks whose wooden handles Have been worn away by many hands: such forms Seemed to me the noblest.
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Approaching Folk Hands Knives Men

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