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I Who live in Los Angeles and not in London Find, on thinking about Hell, that it must be Still more like Los Angeles.

Bertolt Brecht

People cannot remain good unless good is expected of them.
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Expected Good People Remain
None will improve your lot If you yourself do not.
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Inspirational Life Motivational
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
One must live well to know what living is.
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Knows Live Must Well
General, your tank is a powerful vehicle It smashes down forests and crushes a hundred men. But it has one defect: It needs a driver.
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Crush Men Powerful
The shrill voices of those who give orders Are full of fear like the squeakings of Piglets awaiting the butcher’s knife, as their fat arses Sweat with anxiety in their office chairs…. Fear rules not only those who are ruled, but The rulers too.
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Knives Order Sweat
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
For time flows on, and if it did not, it would be a bad prospect for those who do not sit at golden tables.
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Order Reality Tables
When the praying does no good, insurance does help.
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Helping Insurance Praying
Their peace and their war Are like wind and storm. War grows from their peace.
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Peace Storm War Wind
…it is simplicity that is difficult to make.
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Design Difficult Simplicity Software
People remain what they are even if their faces fall apart.
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Faces Fall People
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
Why be a man when you can be a success?
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Inspirational Life Motivational
When you name yourself, you always name another.
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Always Another Names
Whenever there are great virtues, it’s a sure sign something’s wrong.
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Great Something Virtue Wrong

I Who live in Los Angeles and not in London Find, on thinking about Hell, that it must be Still more like Los Angeles.

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I Who live in Los Angeles and not in London Find, on thinking about Hell, that it must be Still more like Los Angeles.

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