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A man who strains himself on the stage is bound, if he is any good, to strain all the people sitting in the stalls.

Bertolt Brecht

I don’t trust him. We’re friends.
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Friendship Negative Trust
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
As regards obstacles, the shortest distance between two points can be a curve.
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Curves Distance Two
If you don’t have fun, you don’t have a show.
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Fun Inspirational Shows
A theater without beer is just a museum
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Beer Museums Theater
One cannot be arraigned for declaring a war, which every ruler has to do once in a while, but only for running a war badly.
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Declaring Running War
It isn’t important to come out on top, what matters is to be the one who comes out alive.
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Acceptance Important Matters
For once you must try not to shirk the facts: mankind is kept alive by bestial acts.
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Alive Sex Trying
Art and science work in quite different ways: agreed. But, bad as it may sound, I have to admit that I cannot get along as an artist without the use of one or two sciences. …
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Art Science Views Work
What a miserable thing life is: you’re in clover; only the clover isn’t good enough.
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Gratitude Life Sadness
To live means to finesse the processes to which one is subjugated.
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Finesse Mean Process
Those who have had no share in the good fortunes of the mighty Often have a share in their misfortunes.
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Fortune Good Mighty Share
Spring is noticed, if at all By people sitting in railway trains.
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People Sitting Spring
Go make yourself a plan And be a shining light. Then make yourself a second plan, For neither will come right.
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Light Planning Shining
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
The right to happiness is fundamental; men live so little time and die alone.
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Alone Happiness Joy Men

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