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It isn’t important to come out on top, what matters is to be the one who comes out alive.

Bertolt Brecht

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
Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.
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Mistake Moving Wisdom
It is not enough to demand insight and informative images of reality from the theater. Our theater must stimulate a desire for understanding, a delight in changing reality.
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Desire Reality Understanding
Sometimes it’s more important to be human, than to have good taste.
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Important Sometimes Taste
People are too durable, that’s their main trouble. They can do too much to themselves, they last too long.
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Long People Silly
If you fight you might lose, if you don’t you have already lost.
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Fighting Lost
Don’t accept the habitual as a natural thing. In times of disorder, of organized confusion, of de-humanized humanity, nothing should seem natural. Nothing should seem impossible to change.
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Confusion Humanity Impossible
For what’s the use of talking with a man who has a disease and thinks about the stars?
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Men Stars Thinking
Come in, dear wind, and be our guest You too have neither home nor rest.
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Guest Home Wind
When the praying does no good, insurance does help.
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Helping Insurance Praying
You have to attack once the truth is too weak to defend itself.
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Defend Truth Weak
Eats first, morals after.
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Eat Firsts Moral
Even hatred of vileness Distorts a mans features.
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Features Hatred
I Who live in Los Angeles and not in London Find, on thinking about Hell, that it must be Still more like Los Angeles.
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About Country Live Place
Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.
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Death Fear Life
As regards obstacles, the shortest distance between two points can be a curve.
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Curves Distance Two

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