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General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.

Bertolt Brecht

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
You don’t need to pray to God any more when there are storms in the sky, but you do have to be insured.
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God Sky Storm
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
Grub first, then ethics.
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Cooking First Food
It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk.
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Banker Clerk Fog
No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.
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Demand Literature Long
I’m in good form, taking no interest in things, neglecting clothes, meals, company, and feeling calm and stable as I write.
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Clothes Feelings Writing
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
The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set a limit to infinite error.
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Errors Science 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
Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes.
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Happiness Hero Land
What’s breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank?
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Banking Breaking Literature Silence
When the praying does no good, insurance does help.
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Helping Insurance Praying
I opened the man’s skull and messed about with his brains. I saw how they patched fellows up, so as to cart them back to the Front as quickly as they could.
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Brains Cart Front Patch Skull
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
He who is still laughing is he who hasn’t heard the terrible news.
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Laughing News Terrible

General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.

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