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Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.

Bertolt Brecht

What a miserable thing life is: you’re in clover; only the clover isn’t good enough.
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Gratitude Life Sadness
There are some with brains and some without. It makes for a better division of labour.
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Brain Division Labor
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
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
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
Bank robbery is an initiative of amateurs. True professionals establish a bank.
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Bank Initiative Robbery
When the leaders speak of peace, the common folk know war is coming.
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Common Folk Leader War
War is like love, it always finds a way.
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Life Love Military
Would it not be simpler If the Government dissolved the people and elected another?
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Another Government People
Our audience must experience not only the ways to free Prometheus, but be schooled in the very desire to free him. Theater must teach all the pleasures and joys of discovery, all the feelings of triumph associated with liberation.
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Audience Discovery Experience Joy Pleasure Schooled
Why be a man when you can be a success?
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Inspirational Life Motivational
When crimes begin to pile up they become invisible. When sufferings become unendurable the cries are no longer heard. The cries, too, fall like rain in summer.
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Fall Rain Summer
People are too durable, that’s their main trouble. They can do too much to themselves, they last too long.
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Long People Silly
One must live well to know what living is.
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Knows Live Must Well
Never believe on faith, see for yourself! What you yourself don’t learn you don’t know.
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Believe Knows Learn
Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.
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Death Fear Life

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