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Impact lies in the vicinity of mistakes.

Bertolt Brecht

The finest plans are always ruined by the littleness of those who ought to carry them out, for emperor himself can actually be nothing.
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Emperor Finest Ruined
Things take indeed a wondrous turn When learned men do stoop to learn.
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Men Scholarship Turns
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
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
Unfortunate the country that needs heroes!
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Country Hero Needs
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
For art to be ‘unpolitical’ means only to ally itself with the ‘ruling’ group.
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Allies Art Mean
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
When you name yourself, you always name another.
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Always Another Names
The fanatics for progress often have too little appreciation of the existing.
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Appreciation Littles Progress
There are men who struggle for a day and they are good. There are men who struggle for a year and they are better. There are men who struggle many years, and they are better still. But there are those who struggle all their lives: These are the indispensable ones.
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Men Struggle Years
Little changes are the enemies of great changes.
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Change Enemy Littles
What kind of times are they, when A talk about trees is almost a crime Because it implies silence about so many horrors?
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Kind Silence Tree
If you don’t have fun, you don’t have a show.
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Fun Inspirational Shows
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
One must live well to know what living is.
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Knows Live Must Well

Impact lies in the vicinity of mistakes.

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