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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?

Bertolt Brecht

Never believe on faith, see for yourself! What you yourself don’t learn you don’t know.
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Believe Knows Learn
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
If you fight you might lose, if you don’t you have already lost.
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Fighting Lost
When the wound/ No longer hurts/ The scar does.
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Doe Hurt Scar
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
If you join the rat race — you’re in the race of rats.
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Join Race Rat
What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank?
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Founding Funny Money Robbing
Who has good luck is good, Who has bad luck is bad.
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Bad Good Luck
The fate of man is man.
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Fate Men Trust
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
You have to attack once the truth is too weak to defend itself.
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Defend Truth Weak
You can’t write poems about trees when the woods are full of policemen.
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Tree Wood Writing
What rapture, oh, it is to know A good thing when you see it And having seen a good thing, oh, What rapture ’tis to flee it.
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Good Knows Rapture Things
It was never decreed that a god mustn’t pay hotel bills.
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Bills Hotel Pay
The rain Never falls upwards. When the wound Stops hurting What hurts is The scar.
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Fall Hurt Rain
Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.
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Art Mirror Reality

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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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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