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General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.

Bertolt Brecht

Fearful is the seductive power of goodness.
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Fearful Goodness Seductive
In the contradiction lies the hope.
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Contradiction Hope Lying
You can make a fresh start with your final breath.
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Breaths Finals Fresh Start
In my view, the great and complicated things that go on in the world cannot be adequately recognized by people who do not use every possible aid to understanding.
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Adequately Great Recognized Understanding
As regards obstacles, the shortest distance between two points can be a curve.
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Curves Distance Two
For time flows on, and if it did not, it would be a bad prospect for those who do not sit at golden tables.
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Order Reality Tables
Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.
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Death Fear Life
Life is short and so is money.
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Cute Life Money Short
The right to happiness is fundamental; men live so little time and die alone.
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Alone Happiness Joy Men
Even the most blockheaded bureaucrat, provided he loves peace, is a greater lover of the arts than any so-called art-lover who loves the arts of war.
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Even Greater Love Lover Peace Provided War
He who is still laughing is he who hasn’t heard the terrible news.
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Laughing News Terrible
He who fights, can lose. He who doesn’t fight, has already lost.
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Fighting Loses Lost
To live means to finesse the processes to which one is subjugated.
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Finesse Mean Process
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
Don’t tell me peace has broken out.
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Broken Out Peace
The finest plans have always been spoiled by the littleness of them that should carry them out. Even emperors can’t do it all by themselves.
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Finest Spoil

General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.

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