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When the leaders speak of peace The common folk know That war is coming When the leaders curse war

Bertolt Brecht

Mixing one’s wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.
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Mistake Wine Wisdom
Grub first, then ethics.
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Cooking First Food
Show them the red tail of a comet, fill them with black terror, and they will all come running out of their houses and break their legs. But tell them one sensible proposition, and support it with seven reasons, and they will simply laugh in your face.
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Black Proposition Running Sensible Show Support
Great sport begins at a point where it has ceased to be healthy.
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Great Healthy Sports
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
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
War is like love, it always finds a way.
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Life Love Military
For art to be ‘unpolitical’ means only to ally itself with the ‘ruling’ group.
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Allies Art Mean
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
Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.
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Death Fear Life
With drooping shoulders The majority sit hunched, their foreheads furrowed like Stony ground that has been repeatedly ploughed-up to no purpose.
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Majority Purpose Shoulders
Even hatred of vileness Distorts a mans features.
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Features Hatred
Don’t tell me peace has broken out.
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Broken Out Peace
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
First the grub, then the morals.
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Firsts Miscellaneous Moral
I don’t trust him. We’re friends.
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Friendship Negative Trust

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