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Love is the wish to give, not to receive.

Bertolt Brecht

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
Poverty makes you wise but it’s a curse.
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Curse Poverty Wise
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
The more innocent they are, the more they deserve to be shot.
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Deserve Innocent Shots
We often do not know ourselves the grounds On which we act, though plain to others.
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Ground Knows Others Ourselves
Who built the seven gates of Thebes? In the books are listed the names of kings. Did the kings heave up the building blocks?
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Block Book Kings
Those who take the most from the table, teach contentment. Those for whom the taxes are destined, demand sacrifice. Those who eat their fill, speak to the hungry, of wonderful times to come. Those who lead the country into the abyss, call ruling difficult, for ordinary folk.
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Contentment Country Sacrifice
What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank?
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Founding Funny Money Robbing
General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.
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Defect Men Thinking
The finest plans have always been spoiled by the littleness of them that should carry them out. Even emperors can’t do it all by themselves.
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Finest Spoil
The war which is coming Is not the first one. There were Other wars before it. When the last one came to an end There were conquerors and conquered. Among the conquered the common people Starved. Among the conquerors The common people starved too.
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Lasts People War
One forgets too easily the difference between a man and his image, and that there is none between the sound of his voice on the screen and in real life.
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Men Real Screen Voice
Then I will tell you something. I do not believe in it. Forty years among men has consistently taught me that they are not amenable to commonsense.
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Belief Men Running
Things take indeed a wondrous turn When learned men do stoop to learn.
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Men Scholarship Turns
People cannot remain good unless good is expected of them.
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Expected Good People Remain
Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.
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Mistake Moving Wisdom

Love is the wish to give, not to receive.

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