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Young Alexander conquered India. He alone? Caesar beat the Gauls. Was there not even a cook in his army? Philip of Spain wept as his fleet was sunk and destroyed. Were there no other tears? Frederick the Great triumphed in the Seven Years War. Who Triumphed with him?

Bertolt Brecht

Firebugs dragging their gasoline bottles are approaching the Academy of Arts, with a grin. And so, instead of embracing them, let us demand the freedom of the elbow to knock the bottles out of their filthy hands.
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Art Embrace Hands War
Writers can’t write as fast as governments make wars; because to write demands thinking.
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Thinking War Writing
When evil-doing comes like falling rain, nobody calls out “stop!” When crimes begin to pile up they become invisible. When sufferings become unendurable the cries are no longer heard. The cries, too, fall like rain in summer.
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Become Doing Evil Invisible Suffering
There are some with brains and some without. It makes for a better division of labour.
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Brain Division Labor
Temptation to behave is terrible.
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Literature Temptation Terrible
Suppose they gave a war, and nobody came? Why then, the war would come to you!
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Politics Suppose War
People who fight may lose. People who do not fight have already lost.
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Fighting May People
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
Mixing one’s wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.
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Mistake Wine Wisdom
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
What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank?
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Founding Funny Money Robbing
Life is short and so is money.
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Cute Life Money Short
From the start it has been the theatre’s business to entertain people … it needs no other passport than fun.
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Fun People Theatre
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
Grub first, then ethics.
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Cooking First Food
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

Young Alexander conquered India. He alone? Caesar beat the Gauls. Was there not even a cook in his army? Philip of Spain wept as his fleet was sunk and destroyed. Were there no other tears? Frederick the Great triumphed in the Seven Years War. Who Triumphed with him?

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