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It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk.

Bertolt Brecht

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
Little changes are the enemies of great changes.
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Change Enemy Littles
Some party hack decreed that the people had lost the government’s confidence and could only regain it with redoubled effort. If that is the case, would it not be simpler, If the government simply dissolved the people And elected another?
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Government Party People
Even hatred of vileness Distorts a mans features.
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Features Hatred
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
He who is still laughing is he who hasn’t heard the terrible news.
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Laughing News Terrible
First the pork chops, then morality
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Firsts Morality Pork
For the task assigned them Men aren’t smart enough or sly Any rogue can blind them With a clever lie.
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Clever Lying Smart
People remain what they are even if their faces fall apart.
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Faces Fall People
One can describe the world of today to the people of today only if one describes it as capable of alteration.
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People Today World
General, your tank is a powerful vehicle it smashes down forests and crushes a hundred men. but it has one defect: it needs a driver.
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Crush Men Powerful
What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?
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Cheesy Funny Gone Good Morning
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
Life is short and so is money.
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Cute Life Money Short
Those against politics are in favor of the politics inflicted upon them.
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Democracy Favors Freedom
Who has good luck is good, Who has bad luck is bad.
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Bad Good Luck

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