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For once you must try not to shirk the facts: mankind is kept alive by bestial acts.

Bertolt Brecht

The war which is coming Is not the first one. There were Other wars before it. When the last one came to an end There were conquerors and conquered. Among the conquered the common people Starved. Among the conquerors The common people starved too.
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Lasts People 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
Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.
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Mistake Moving Wisdom
People are too durable, that’s their main trouble. They can do too much to themselves, they last too long.
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Long People Silly
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
Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon.
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Book Men Weapons
First feed the face, then talk right and wrong.
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Faces Firsts Talk
The mill wheel turns, it turns forever, though what is uppermost remains not so.
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Forever Mills Wheels
There are times when you have to choose between being human and having good taste.
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Being Good Human Nature Taste
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
First the pork chops, then morality
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Firsts Morality Pork
There must always be some who are brighter and some who are stupider, the latter make up for it by being better workers.
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Latter Stupidity Workers
Sin is what is new, strong, surprising, strange. The theatre must take an interest in sin if the young are to be able to go there.
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Able Strong Theatre
There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.
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Leadership Numbers Two
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
Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.
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Death Fear Life

For once you must try not to shirk the facts: mankind is kept alive by bestial acts.

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