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

Bertolt Brecht

If you fight you might lose, if you don’t you have already lost.
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Fighting Lost
Mixing one’s wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.
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Mistake Wine Wisdom
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
Why be a man when you can be a success?
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Inspirational Life Motivational
Things take indeed a wondrous turn When learned men do stoop to learn.
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Men Scholarship Turns
Whenever there are great virtues, it’s a sure sign something’s wrong.
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Great Something Virtue Wrong
In the contradiction lies the hope.
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Contradiction Hope Lying
The mill wheel turns, it turns forever, though what is uppermost remains not so.
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Forever Mills Wheels
Even hatred of vileness Distorts a mans features.
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Features Hatred
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
Come in, dear wind, and be our guest You too have neither home nor rest.
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Guest Home Wind
Love is also like a coconut which is good while it is fresh, but you have to spit it out when the juice is gone, what’s left tastes bitter.
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Gone Love Sad Taste
He who speaks of enemies , himself is the enemy.
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Enemy Himself Speak
If you wan to steal money, don’t rob a bank – open one.
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Money One Open Stealing
It isn’t important to come out on top, what matters is to be the one who comes out alive.
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Acceptance Important Matters
To those who does not know the world is on fire, I have nothing to say.
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Fire Nothing World

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