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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.

Bertolt Brecht

Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods.
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Reality Taken 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
Sometimes it’s more important to be human, than to have good taste.
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Important Sometimes Taste
When the praying does no good, insurance does help.
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Helping Insurance Praying
Don’t be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.
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Anticipation Death Life
Oh! Moon of Alabama We now must say good-bye We’ve lost our good old mama And must have whiskey Oh, you know why!
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Alabama Bye Moon
What kind of times are they, when A talk about trees is almost a crime Because it implies silence about so many horrors?
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Kind Silence Tree
Even the most blockheaded bureaucrat, provided he loves peace, is a greater lover of the arts than any so-called art-lover who loves the arts of war.
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Even Greater Love Lover Peace Provided War
Unhappiness doesn’t grow on the chest like leprosy. Poverty won’t fall off the roof like a loose tile, no; poverty and unhappiness are man’s doing.
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Fall Men Tiles
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
One forgets too easily the difference between a man and his image, and that there is none between the sound of his voice on the screen and in real life.
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Men Real Screen Voice
There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.
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Leadership Numbers Two
The mill wheel turns, it turns forever, though what is uppermost remains not so.
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Forever Mills Wheels
A good soldier has his heart and soul in it. When he receives an order, he gets a hard on, and when he drives his lance through his enemy’s guts, he comes.
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Art Heart Order Philosophy
In my view, the great and complicated things that go on in the world cannot be adequately recognized by people who do not use every possible aid to understanding.
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Adequately Great Recognized Understanding
Sin is what is new, strong, surprising, strange. The theatre must take an interest in sin if the young are to be able to go there.
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Able Strong Theatre

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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