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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

First the pork chops, then morality
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Firsts Morality Pork
Whenever there are great virtues, it’s a sure sign something’s wrong.
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Great Something Virtue Wrong
I don’t trust him. We’re friends.
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Friendship Negative Trust
Art is not a mirror. Art is a hammer.
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Art Hammers Mirrors
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, 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
He who fights, can lose. He who doesn’t fight, has already lost.
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Fighting Loses Lost
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
Erst kommt das Fressen, dann kommt die Moral.
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Anger Dies Moral
What a miserable thing life is: you’re in clover; only the clover isn’t good enough.
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Gratitude Life Sadness
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
Everyone needs help from everyone.
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Collaboration Helping Needs
Spring is noticed, if at all By people sitting in railway trains.
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People Sitting Spring
A man who sees another man on the street corner with only a stump for an arm will be so shocked the first time he’ll give him sixpence. But the second time it’ll only be a three penny bit. And if he sees him a third time, he’ll have him cold-bloodedly handed over to the police.
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Giving Men Police Six Street Time
Then I will tell you something. I do not believe in it. Forty years among men has consistently taught me that they are not amenable to commonsense.
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Belief Men Running
Who has good luck is good, Who has bad luck is bad.
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Bad Good Luck

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