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Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.

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
Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes.
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Happiness Hero Land
Firebugs dragging their gasoline bottles are approaching the Academy of Arts, with a grin. And so, instead of embracing them, let us demand the freedom of the elbow to knock the bottles out of their filthy hands.
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Art Embrace Hands War
Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.
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Death Fear 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
General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.
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Defect Men Thinking
No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.
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Demand Literature Long
Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.
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Art Mirror Reality
What’s breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank?
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Banking Breaking Literature Silence
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
All artforms are in the service of the greatest of all arts: the art of living.
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Art Living Service
The fate of man is man.
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Fate Men Trust
Each of us is the strongest one in his or her own skin. Characteristics should take off their hats to one another, instead of spitting in each other’s faces.
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Characteristics Each Face Spitting
It was never decreed that a god mustn’t pay hotel bills.
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Bills Hotel Pay
I don’t trust him. We’re friends.
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Friendship Negative Trust
The finest plans are always ruined by the littleness of those who ought to carry them out, for emperor himself can actually be nothing.
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Emperor Finest Ruined

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