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For once you must try not to shirk the facts: mankind is kept alive by bestial acts.

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
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
He who is still laughing is he who hasn’t heard the terrible news.
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Laughing News Terrible
Even hatred of vileness Distorts a mans features.
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Features Hatred
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
What’s breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank?
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Banking Breaking Literature Silence
Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must also change. Nothing comes from nothing; the new comes from the old, but that is why it is new.
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Change Nothing Reality Representation
As regards obstacles, the shortest distance between two points can be a curve.
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Curves Distance Two
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
Something ignoble, loathsome, undignified attends all associations between people and has been transferred to all objects, dwelling, tools, even the landscape itself.
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Dwelling Object People Tool
Everyone needs help from everyone.
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Collaboration Helping Needs
It’s never too late for those whose time has come.
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Come Late never Too
…it is simplicity that is difficult to make.
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Design Difficult Simplicity Software
There are a few things that’ll move people to pity, a few, but the trouble is, when they’ve been used several times, they no longer work.
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Moving People Trouble
Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.
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Mistake Moving Wisdom
I don’t like where I’m going and I don’t like where I’ve been. Why am I in a hurry?
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Going Hurry Like

For once you must try not to shirk the facts: mankind is kept alive by bestial acts.

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