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For time flows on, and if it did not, it would be a bad prospect for those who do not sit at golden tables.

Bertolt Brecht

Love is the wish to give, not to receive.
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Giving Love Wish
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
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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Fall Rain Summer
Recently my fingers have developed a prejudice against comparatives. They all follow this pattern: a squirrel is smaller than a tree; a bird is more musical than a tree.
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Bird Perspective Squirrels
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
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
The righteous one has no sense of humor.
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Humor One Righteous Sense
Science knows only one commandment – contribute to science.
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Account Knows Science
Boy Meets Girl, So What?
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Boys Broken Girl Heart
First the grub, then the morals.
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Firsts Miscellaneous Moral
Everyone needs help from everyone.
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Collaboration Helping 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
What kind of times are they, when A talk about trees is almost a crime Because it implies silence about so many horrors?
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Kind Silence Tree
Schoenberg is too melodious for me, too sweet.
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Musical Schoenberg Sweet
Realist writing, of which history offers many widely varying examples, is likewise conditioned by the question of how, when and for what class it is made use of.
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Condition Example Made Realist

For time flows on, and if it did not, it would be a bad prospect for those who do not sit at golden tables.

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