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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.

Bertolt Brecht

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
Sometimes it’s more important to be human, than to have good taste.
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Important Sometimes Taste
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
…it is simplicity that is difficult to make.
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Design Difficult Simplicity Software
People remain what they are even if their faces fall apart.
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Faces Fall People
Realist writing, of which history offers many widely varying examples, is likewise conditioned by the question of how, when and for what class it is made use of.
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Condition Example Made Realist
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
Bank robbery is an initiative of amateurs. True professionals establish a bank.
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Bank Initiative Robbery
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 can describe the world of today to the people of today only if one describes it as capable of alteration.
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People Today World
Who fights may lose, but who does not fight has lost already.
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Already Fighting May
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
Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.
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Death Fear Life
Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must also change. Nothing comes from nothing; the new comes from the old, but that is why it is new.
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Change Nothing Reality Representation
Right is its own defense.
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Defense Literature Own Right
Art and science coincide insofar as both aim to improve the lives of men and women.
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Art Fashion Mean

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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