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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

Mixing one’s wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.
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Mistake Wine Wisdom
People remain what they are even if their faces fall apart.
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Faces Fall People
A theater without beer is just a museum
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Beer Museums Theater
For once you must try not to shirk the facts: mankind is kept alive by bestial acts.
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Alive Sex Trying
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
Alas,we who wanted kindness, could not be kind ourselves.
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Be Kind Kindness Wanted
The fate of man is man.
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Fate Men Trust
What a miserable thing life is: you’re in clover; only the clover isn’t good enough.
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Gratitude Life Sadness
From the cradle to the coffin underwear comes first.
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Clean Coffins Literature Underwear
None will improve your lot If you yourself do not.
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Inspirational Life Motivational
Oh why do we not say the important things, it would be so easy, and we are damned because we do not.
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Dammed Easy Important
When the leaders speak of peace The common folk know That war is coming When the leaders curse war
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Common Folk Lying War
Would it not be simpler If the Government dissolved the people and elected another?
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Another Government People
General, your tank is a powerful vehicle It smashes down forests and crushes a hundred men. But it has one defect: It needs a driver.
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Crush Men Powerful
All artforms are in the service of the greatest of all arts: the art of living.
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Art Living Service
What’s breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank?
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Banking Breaking Literature Silence

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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