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Even hatred of vileness Distorts a mans features.

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
Mixing one’s wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.
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Mistake Wine Wisdom
General, your bomber is powerful. It flies faster than a storm and carries more than an elephant. But it has one defect: It needs a mechanic. General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.
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Bother Carries Defect Faster General Man Storm
For time flows on, and if it did not, it would be a bad prospect for those who do not sit at golden tables.
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Order Reality Tables
The fanatics for progress often have too little appreciation of the existing.
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Appreciation Littles Progress
What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank?
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Founding Funny Money Robbing
Never believe on faith, see for yourself! What you yourself don’t learn you don’t know.
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Believe Knows Learn
He who is still laughing is he who hasn’t heard the terrible news.
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Laughing News Terrible
When the wound/ No longer hurts/ The scar does.
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Doe Hurt Scar
Science knows only one commandment – contribute to science.
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Account Knows Science
A good soldier has his heart and soul in it. When he receives an order, he gets a hard on, and when he drives his lance through his enemy’s guts, he comes.
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Art Heart Order Philosophy
The shrill voices of those who give orders Are full of fear like the squeakings of Piglets awaiting the butcher’s knife, as their fat arses Sweat with anxiety in their office chairs…. Fear rules not only those who are ruled, but The rulers too.
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Knives Order Sweat
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
Suppose they gave a war, and nobody came? Why then, the war would come to you!
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Politics Suppose War
On thinking about Hell, I gather My brother Shelley found it was a place Much like the city of London.
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Brother Cities Thinking
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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Even hatred of vileness Distorts a mans features.

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