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What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?

Bertolt Brecht

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
Those who take the most from the table, teach contentment. Those for whom the taxes are destined, demand sacrifice. Those who eat their fill, speak to the hungry, of wonderful times to come. Those who lead the country into the abyss, call ruling difficult, for ordinary folk.
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Contentment Country Sacrifice
Never believe on faith, see for yourself! What you yourself don’t learn you don’t know.
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Believe Knows Learn
Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.
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Death Fear Life
You don’t need to pray to God any more when there are storms in the sky, but you do have to be insured.
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God Sky Storm
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
The more innocent they are, the more they deserve to be shot.
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Deserve Innocent Shots
Fearful is the seductive power of goodness.
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Fearful Goodness Seductive
You may proclaim, good sirs, your fine philosophy But till you feed us, right and wrong can wait!
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May Philosophy Waiting
First feed the face, then talk right and wrong.
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Faces Firsts Talk
If you join the rat race — you’re in the race of rats.
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Join Race Rat
Art and science coincide insofar as both aim to improve the lives of men and women.
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Art Fashion Mean
Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods.
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Reality Taken Writing
Here today we huddle tight As the darkest heathens might The snow falls chilly on our skin The snow is forcing its way in. Hush, snow, come in with us to dwell: We were thrown out by Heaven as well.
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Fall Heaven Snow
Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.
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Art Mirror Reality
The righteous one has no sense of humor.
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Humor One Righteous Sense
First the pork chops, then morality
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Firsts Morality Pork
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
Who does Not Know the Truth, is simply a Fool… Yet who Knows the Truth and Calls it a Lie, is a Criminal.
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Criminals Doe Lying
He who fights, can lose. He who doesn’t fight, has already lost.
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Fighting Loses Lost
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
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
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
He who is still laughing is he who hasn’t heard the terrible news.
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Laughing News Terrible
Bank robbery is an initiative of amateurs. True professionals establish a bank.
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Bank Initiative Robbery
Erst kommt das Fressen, dann kommt die Moral.
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Anger Dies Moral
To live means to finesse the processes to which one is subjugated.
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Finesse Mean Process

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