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Right is its own defense.

Bertolt Brecht

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
There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.
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Leadership Numbers Two
Grub first, then ethics.
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Cooking First Food
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
Young Alexander conquered India. He alone? Caesar beat the Gauls. Was there not even a cook in his army? Philip of Spain wept as his fleet was sunk and destroyed. Were there no other tears? Frederick the Great triumphed in the Seven Years War. Who Triumphed with him?
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Army War Years
Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must also change. Nothing comes from nothing; the new comes from the old, but that is why it is new.
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Change Nothing Reality Representation
If you wan to steal money, don’t rob a bank – open one.
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Money One Open Stealing
People who fight may lose. People who do not fight have already lost.
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Fighting May People
Let nothing be called natural In an age of bloody confusion, Ordered disorder, planned caprice, And dehumanized humanity, lest all things Be held unalterable!
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Confusion Humanity Nature
There are some with brains and some without. It makes for a better division of labour.
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Brain Division Labor
First feed the face, then talk right and wrong.
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Faces Firsts Talk
A man who strains himself on the stage is bound, if he is any good, to strain all the people sitting in the stalls.
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Acting Men People
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
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
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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About Country Live Place
Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon.
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Book Men Weapons

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