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

Bertolt Brecht

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
I opened the man’s skull and messed about with his brains. I saw how they patched fellows up, so as to cart them back to the Front as quickly as they could.
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Brains Cart Front Patch Skull
Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.
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Mistake Moving Wisdom
The defeats and victories of the fellows at the top aren’t always defeats and victories for the fellows at the bottom.
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Defeat Sunset Victory
For what’s the use of talking with a man who has a disease and thinks about the stars?
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Men Stars Thinking
Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must change.
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Order Reality Representation
Alas,we who wanted kindness, could not be kind ourselves.
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Be Kind Kindness Wanted
Recently my fingers have developed a prejudice against comparatives. They all follow this pattern: a squirrel is smaller than a tree; a bird is more musical than a tree.
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Bird Perspective Squirrels
He who is still laughing is he who hasn’t heard the terrible news.
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Laughing News Terrible
The shrill voices of those who give orders Are full of fear like the squeakings of Piglets awaiting the butcher’s knife, as their fat arses Sweat with anxiety in their office chairs…. Fear rules not only those who are ruled, but The rulers too.
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Knives Order Sweat
Erst kommt das Fressen, dann kommt die Moral.
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Anger Dies Moral
Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon.
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Book Men Weapons
Show them the red tail of a comet, fill them with black terror, and they will all come running out of their houses and break their legs. But tell them one sensible proposition, and support it with seven reasons, and they will simply laugh in your face.
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Black Proposition Running Sensible Show Support
The more innocent they are, the more they deserve to be shot.
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Deserve Innocent Shots
Those who take the most from the table, teach contentment. Those for whom the taxes are destined, demand sacrifice. Those who eat their fill, speak to the hungry, of wonderful times to come. Those who lead the country into the abyss, call ruling difficult, for ordinary folk.
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Contentment Country Sacrifice
A theater without beer is just a museum
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Beer Museums Theater

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