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It isn’t important to come out on top, what matters is to be the one who comes out alive.

Bertolt Brecht

War is like love, it always finds a way.
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Life Love Military
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
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
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
Of all the works of man I like best Those which have been used. The copper pots with their dents and flattened edges The knives and forks whose wooden handles Have been worn away by many hands: such forms Seemed to me the noblest.
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Approaching Folk Hands Knives Men
You have to attack once the truth is too weak to defend itself.
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Defend Truth Weak
I am a playwright. I show What I have seen. In the man markets I have seen how men are traded. That I show, I, the playwright.
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Men Show Traded
With drooping shoulders The majority sit hunched, their foreheads furrowed like Stony ground that has been repeatedly ploughed-up to no purpose.
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Majority Purpose Shoulders
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
Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon.
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Book Men Weapons
If you wan to steal money, don’t rob a bank – open one.
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Money One Open Stealing
The alienation effect in German epic theater is achieved not only through the actors, but also through music (chorus and song) andsets (transparencies, film strips, etc.). Its main purpose is to place the staged events in their historical context.
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Art Epic Film History Purpose Song
Little changes are the enemies of great changes.
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Change Enemy Littles
When the praying does no good, insurance does help.
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Helping Insurance Praying
The finest plans have always been spoiled by the littleness of them that should carry them out. Even emperors can’t do it all by themselves.
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Finest Spoil
What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank?
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Founding Funny Money Robbing

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