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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.

Bertolt Brecht

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
I am a playwright. I show What I have seen. In the man markets I have seen how men are traded. That I show, I, the playwright.
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Men Show Traded
Who built the seven gates of Thebes? In the books are listed the names of kings. Did the kings heave up the building blocks?
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Block Book Kings
First the pork chops, then morality
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Firsts Morality Pork
He who fights, can lose. He who doesn’t fight, has already lost.
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Fighting Loses Lost
When the house of a great one collapses Many little ones are slain.
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Collapse House Littles
Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.
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Art Mirror Reality
What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?
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Cheesy Funny Gone Good Morning
Schoenberg is too melodious for me, too sweet.
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Musical Schoenberg Sweet
When something seems ‘the most obvious thing in the world’ it means that any attempt to understand the world has been given up.
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Mean World
The man who laughs has simply not yet had the terrible news.
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Laughing Laughter Men
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
One cannot be arraigned for declaring a war, which every ruler has to do once in a while, but only for running a war badly.
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Declaring Running War
First the grub, then the morals.
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Firsts Miscellaneous Moral
Who does Not Know the Truth, is simply a Fool… Yet who Knows the Truth and Calls it a Lie, is a Criminal.
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Criminals Doe Lying
The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set a limit to infinite error.
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Errors Science Wisdom

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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