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Bank robbery is an initiative of amateurs. True professionals establish a bank.

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
Love is the wish to give, not to receive.
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Giving Love Wish
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
Who struggles can fail. Who doesn’t struggle has already failed!
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Diversity Justice Struggle
There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.
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Leadership Numbers Two
Temptation to behave is terrible.
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Literature Temptation Terrible
The fate of man is man.
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Fate Men Trust
Poverty makes you wise but it’s a curse.
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Curse Poverty Wise
First the grub, then the morals.
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Firsts Miscellaneous Moral
Writers can’t write as fast as governments make wars; because to write demands thinking.
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Thinking War Writing
Who built the seven gates of Thebes? In the books are listed the names of kings. Did the kings heave up the building blocks?
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Block Book Kings
Don’t be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.
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Anticipation Death Life
For what’s the use of talking with a man who has a disease and thinks about the stars?
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Men Stars Thinking
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
The storm that bends the birch trees Is held to be violent But how about the storm That bends the backs of the roadworkers?
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Storm Tree Violent

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