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Mixing one’s wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.

Bertolt Brecht

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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Peace Running War
What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?
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Cheesy Funny Gone Good Morning
Art is not a mirror. Art is a hammer.
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Art Hammers Mirrors
When the leaders speak of peace, the common folk know war is coming.
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Common Folk Leader War
General, your bomber is powerful. It flies faster than a storm and carries more than an elephant. But it has one defect: It needs a mechanic. General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.
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Bother Carries Defect Faster General Man Storm
Don’t be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.
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Anticipation Death Life
The war which is coming Is not the first one. There were Other wars before it. When the last one came to an end There were conquerors and conquered. Among the conquered the common people Starved. Among the conquerors The common people starved too.
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Lasts 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
Things take indeed a wondrous turn When learned men do stoop to learn.
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Men Scholarship Turns
Today every invention is received with a cry of triumph which soon turns into a cry of fear.
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Fear Today Triumph
The fate of man is man.
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Fate Men Trust
Realist writing, of which history offers many widely varying examples, is likewise conditioned by the question of how, when and for what class it is made use of.
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Condition Example Made Realist
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
Love is the wish to give, not to receive.
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Giving Love Wish
There are men who struggle for a day and they are good. There are men who struggle for a year and they are better. There are men who struggle many years, and they are better still. But there are those who struggle all their lives: These are the indispensable ones.
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Men Struggle Years
You can’t write poems about trees when the woods are full of policemen.
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Tree Wood Writing

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