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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.

Bertolt Brecht

He who speaks of enemies , himself is the enemy.
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Enemy Himself Speak
For art to be ‘unpolitical’ means only to ally itself with the ‘ruling’ group.
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Allies Art Mean
Impact lies in the vicinity of mistakes.
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Impact Lying Mistakes
What’s a joy to the one is a nightmare to the other.
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Joy Nightmare One Other
People who understand everything get no stories.
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People Stories Understand
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
Bank robbery is an initiative of amateurs. True professionals establish a bank.
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Bank Initiative Robbery
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
Even the most blockheaded bureaucrat, provided he loves peace, is a greater lover of the arts than any so-called art-lover who loves the arts of war.
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Even Greater Love Lover Peace Provided War
When the wound/ No longer hurts/ The scar does.
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Doe Hurt Scar
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
Their peace and their war Are like wind and storm. War grows from their peace.
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Peace Storm War Wind
Even hatred of vileness Distorts a mans features.
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Features Hatred
Art and science work in quite different ways: agreed. But, bad as it may sound, I have to admit that I cannot get along as an artist without the use of one or two sciences. …
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Art Science Views Work
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
None will improve your lot If you yourself do not.
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