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Whenever there are great virtues, it’s a sure sign something’s wrong.

Bertolt Brecht

Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.
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Mistake Moving Wisdom
Only bad generals need heroes.
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General Hero Needs
There are some with brains and some without. It makes for a better division of labour.
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Brain Division Labor
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
A good soldier has his heart and soul in it. When he receives an order, he gets a hard on, and when he drives his lance through his enemy’s guts, he comes.
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Art Heart Order Philosophy
What a miserable thing life is: you’re in clover; only the clover isn’t good enough.
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Gratitude Life Sadness
Don’t be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.
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Anticipation Death Life
Those against politics are in favor of the politics inflicted upon them.
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Democracy Favors Freedom
Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must change.
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Order Reality Representation
Mixing one’s wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.
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Mistake Wine Wisdom
Their peace and their war Are like wind and storm. War grows from their peace.
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Peace Storm War Wind
People who fight may lose. People who do not fight have already lost.
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Fighting May People
What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank?
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Founding Funny Money Robbing
Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes.
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Happiness Hero Land
Some party hack decreed that the people had lost the government’s confidence and could only regain it with redoubled effort. If that is the case, would it not be simpler, If the government simply dissolved the people And elected another?
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Government Party People
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

Whenever there are great virtues, it’s a sure sign something’s wrong.

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Whenever there are great virtues, it’s a sure sign something’s wrong.

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