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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.

Bertolt Brecht

Spring is noticed, if at all By people sitting in railway trains.
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People Sitting Spring
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
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
A man who sees another man on the street corner with only a stump for an arm will be so shocked the first time he’ll give him sixpence. But the second time it’ll only be a three penny bit. And if he sees him a third time, he’ll have him cold-bloodedly handed over to the police.
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Giving Men Police Six Street Time
What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?
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Cheesy Funny Gone Good Morning
The mobilization order is already written out. Every day, to earn my daily bread I go to the market where lies are bought Hopefully I take up my place among the sellers.
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Eran Hopefully Mobilization Out Place Seller Written
Fearful is the seductive power of goodness.
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Fearful Goodness Seductive
The righteous one has no sense of humor.
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Humor One Righteous Sense
War is like love, it always finds a way.
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Life Love Military
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
I am a playwright. I show What I have seen. In the man markets I have seen how men are traded. That I show, I, the playwright.
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Men Show Traded
People who fight may lose. People who do not fight have already lost.
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Fighting May People
Who has good luck is good, Who has bad luck is bad.
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Bad Good Luck
What a miserable thing life is: you’re in clover; only the clover isn’t good enough.
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Gratitude Life Sadness
If art reflects life, it does so with special mirrors.
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Art Mirrors Special
Who does Not Know the Truth, is simply a Fool… Yet who Knows the Truth and Calls it a Lie, is a Criminal.
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Criminals Doe Lying

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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