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

Bertolt Brecht

I opened the man’s skull and messed about with his brains. I saw how they patched fellows up, so as to cart them back to the Front as quickly as they could.
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Brains Cart Front Patch Skull
Why be a man when you can be a success?
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Inspirational Life Motivational
You can’t write poems about trees when the woods are full of policemen.
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Tree Wood Writing
When the house of a great one collapses Many little ones are slain.
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Collapse House Littles
If you don’t have fun, you don’t have a show.
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Fun Inspirational Shows
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
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
The defeats and victories of the fellows at the top aren’t always defeats and victories for the fellows at the bottom.
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Defeat Sunset Victory
Poverty makes you wise but it’s a curse.
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Curse Poverty Wise
Bank robbery is an initiative of amateurs. True professionals establish a bank.
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Bank Initiative Robbery
Great sport begins at a point where it has ceased to be healthy.
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Great Healthy Sports
I’m in good form, taking no interest in things, neglecting clothes, meals, company, and feeling calm and stable as I write.
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Clothes Feelings Writing
…it is simplicity that is difficult to make.
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Design Difficult Simplicity Software
Sometimes it’s more important to be human, than to have good taste.
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Important Sometimes Taste
You have to attack once the truth is too weak to defend itself.
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Defend Truth Weak
Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must change.
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Order Reality Representation

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