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Even hatred of vileness Distorts a mans features.

Bertolt Brecht

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
You may proclaim, good sirs, your fine philosophy But till you feed us, right and wrong can wait!
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May Philosophy Waiting
People remain what they are even if their faces fall apart.
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Faces Fall People
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
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
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
As regards obstacles, the shortest distance between two points can be a curve.
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Curves Distance Two
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
Unfortunate the country that needs heroes!
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Country Hero Needs
I don’t trust him. We’re friends.
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Friendship Negative Trust
First the grub, then the morals.
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Firsts Miscellaneous Moral
Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes.
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Happiness Hero Land
There are times when you have to choose between being human and having good taste.
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Being Good Human Nature Taste
Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must change.
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Order Reality Representation
When evil-doing comes like falling rain, nobody calls out “stop!” 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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Become Doing Evil Invisible Suffering
What’s breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank?
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Banking Breaking Literature Silence

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