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Great sport begins at a point where it has ceased to be healthy.

Bertolt Brecht

Those against politics are in favor of the politics inflicted upon them.
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Democracy Favors Freedom
Art is not a mirror. Art is a hammer.
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Art Hammers Mirrors
Suppose they gave a war, and nobody came? Why then, the war would come to you!
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Politics Suppose War
You can make a fresh start with your final breath.
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Breaths Finals Fresh Start
Mixing one’s wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.
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Mistake Wine Wisdom
Sin is what is new, strong, surprising, strange. The theatre must take an interest in sin if the young are to be able to go there.
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Able Strong Theatre
Bank robbery is an initiative of amateurs. True professionals establish a bank.
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Bank Initiative Robbery
Art and science work in quite different ways: agreed. But, bad as it may sound, I have to admit that I cannot get along as an artist without the use of one or two sciences. …
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Art Science Views Work
The first time it was reported that our friends were being butchered there was a cry of horror. Then a hundred were butchered. But when a thousand were butchered and there was no end to the butchery, a blanket of silence spread.
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Fall Rain Summer
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
When something seems ‘the most obvious thing in the world’ it means that any attempt to understand the world has been given up.
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Mean World
Young Alexander conquered India. He alone? Caesar beat the Gauls. Was there not even a cook in his army? Philip of Spain wept as his fleet was sunk and destroyed. Were there no other tears? Frederick the Great triumphed in the Seven Years War. Who Triumphed with him?
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Army War Years
It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk.
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Banker Clerk Fog
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
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
What’s a joy to the one is a nightmare to the other.
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Joy Nightmare One Other

Great sport begins at a point where it has ceased to be healthy.

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