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Temptation to behave is terrible.

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
Science knows only one commandment – contribute to science.
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Account Knows Science
Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must change.
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Order Reality Representation
With drooping shoulders The majority sit hunched, their foreheads furrowed like Stony ground that has been repeatedly ploughed-up to no purpose.
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Majority Purpose Shoulders
Oh why do we not say the important things, it would be so easy, and we are damned because we do not.
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Dammed Easy Important
Only bad generals need heroes.
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General Hero Needs
What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank?
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Founding Funny Money Robbing
The newspaper The dog Dialectics Showering, swimming Old music Comfortable shoes Comprehension New music Writing, planting Traveling Singing Being friendly
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Comfortable Dog Newspaper Planting Shoe Singing
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
Who has good luck is good, Who has bad luck is bad.
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Bad Good Luck
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
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
Suppose they gave a war, and nobody came? Why then, the war would come to you!
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Politics Suppose War
It’s never too late for those whose time has come.
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Come Late never Too
If you fight you might lose, if you don’t you have already lost.
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Fighting Lost

Temptation to behave is terrible.

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