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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.

Bertolt Brecht

Pleasures First look from morning’s window The rediscovered book Fascinated faces Snow, the change of the seasons
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Book Change Dog Morning
No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.
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Demand Literature Long
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
Bank robbery is an initiative of amateurs. True professionals establish a bank.
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Bank Initiative Robbery
We attacked a foreign people and treated them like rebels. As you know, it’s all right to treat barbarians barbarically. It’s the desire to be barbaric that makes governments call their enemies barbarians.
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Government People War
It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk.
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Banker Clerk Fog
First the pork chops, then morality
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Firsts Morality Pork
We often do not know ourselves the grounds On which we act, though plain to others.
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Ground Knows Others Ourselves
Firebugs dragging their gasoline bottles are approaching the Academy of Arts, with a grin. And so, instead of embracing them, let us demand the freedom of the elbow to knock the bottles out of their filthy hands.
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Art Embrace Hands War
Then I will tell you something. I do not believe in it. Forty years among men has consistently taught me that they are not amenable to commonsense.
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Belief Men Running
Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.
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Art Mirror Reality
Love is the wish to give, not to receive.
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Giving Love Wish
Art and science work in quite different ways: agreed. But, bad as it may sound, I have to admit that I cannot get along as an artist without the use of one or two sciences. …
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Art Science Views Work
It was never decreed that a god mustn’t pay hotel bills.
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Bills Hotel Pay
You don’t need to pray to God any more when there are storms in the sky, but you do have to be insured.
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God Sky Storm
What a miserable thing life is: you’re in clover; only the clover isn’t good enough.
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Gratitude Life Sadness

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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