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I don’t like where I’m going and I don’t like where I’ve been. Why am I in a hurry?

Bertolt Brecht

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
In the contradiction lies the hope.
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Contradiction Hope Lying
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
Who fights may lose, but who does not fight has lost already.
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Already Fighting May
The human race tends to remember the abuses to which it has been subjected rather than the endearments. What’s left of kisses? Wounds, however, leave scars.
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Abuse Kissing Race
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
Pleasures First look from morning’s window The rediscovered book Fascinated faces Snow, the change of the seasons
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Book Change Dog Morning
Those against politics are in favor of the politics inflicted upon them.
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Democracy Favors Freedom
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
All artforms are in the service of the greatest of all arts: the art of living.
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Art Living Service
What a miserable thing life is: you’re in clover; only the clover isn’t good enough.
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Gratitude Life Sadness
The worst illiterate is the political illiterate. He hears nothing, sees nothing, takes no part in political life. He doesn’t seem to know that the cost of living, the price of beans, of flour, of rent, of medicines all depend on political decisions.
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Children Hate Ignorance
Eats first, morals after.
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Eat Firsts Moral
The right to happiness is fundamental; men live so little time and die alone.
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Alone Happiness Joy Men
The righteous one has no sense of humor.
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Humor One Righteous Sense
What they could do with ’round here is a good war. What else can you expect with peace running wild all over the place? You know what the trouble with peace is? No organization.
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Peace Running War

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