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The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn When teachers themselves are taught to learn.

Bertolt Brecht

People who understand everything get no stories.
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People Stories Understand
Who has good luck is good, Who has bad luck is bad.
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Bad Good Luck
The right to happiness is fundamental; men live so little time and die alone.
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Alone Happiness Joy Men
We attacked a foreign people and treated them like rebels. As you know, it’s all right to treat barbarians barbarically. It’s the desire to be barbaric that makes governments call their enemies barbarians.
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Government People War
The worst illiterate is the political illiterate. He hears nothing, sees nothing, takes no part in political life. He doesn’t seem to know that the cost of living, the price of beans, of flour, of rent, of medicines all depend on political decisions.
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Children Hate Ignorance
Let nothing be called natural In an age of bloody confusion, Ordered disorder, planned caprice, And dehumanized humanity, lest all things Be held unalterable!
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Confusion Humanity Nature
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
Why be a man when you can be a success?
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Inspirational Life Motivational
A man who sees another man on the street corner with only a stump for an arm will be so shocked the first time he’ll give him sixpence. But the second time it’ll only be a three penny bit. And if he sees him a third time, he’ll have him cold-bloodedly handed over to the police.
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Giving Men Police Six Street Time
As regards obstacles, the shortest distance between two points can be a curve.
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Curves Distance Two
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
Great sport begins at a point where it has ceased to be healthy.
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Great Healthy Sports
It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk.
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Banker Clerk Fog
Temptation to behave is terrible.
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Literature Temptation Terrible
Their peace and their war Are like wind and storm. War grows from their peace.
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Peace Storm War Wind
I don’t trust him. We’re friends.
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Friendship Negative Trust

The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn When teachers themselves are taught to learn.

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