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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.

Bertolt Brecht

The righteous one has no sense of humor.
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Humor One Righteous Sense
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
Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must change.
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Order Reality Representation
The fanatics for progress often have too little appreciation of the existing.
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Appreciation Littles Progress
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
Don’t accept the habitual as a natural thing. In times of disorder, of organized confusion, of de-humanized humanity, nothing should seem natural. Nothing should seem impossible to change.
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Confusion Humanity Impossible
Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.
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Art Mirror Reality
It isn’t important to come out on top, what matters is to be the one who comes out alive.
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Acceptance Important Matters
One cannot be arraigned for declaring a war, which every ruler has to do once in a while, but only for running a war badly.
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Declaring Running War
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
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
Their peace and their war Are like wind and storm. War grows from their peace.
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Peace Storm War Wind
Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes.
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Happiness Hero Land
One can describe the world of today to the people of today only if one describes it as capable of alteration.
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People Today World
Those against politics are in favor of the politics inflicted upon them.
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Democracy Favors Freedom
The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn When teachers themselves are taught to learn.
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Crazy Literature Teacher

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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