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Even hatred of vileness Distorts a mans features.

Bertolt Brecht

Those who have had no share in the good fortunes of the mighty Often have a share in their misfortunes.
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Fortune Good Mighty Share
I am a playwright. I show What I have seen. In the man markets I have seen how men are traded. That I show, I, the playwright.
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Men Show Traded
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
There are times when you have to choose between being human and having good taste.
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Being Good Human Nature Taste
Even hatred of vileness Distorts a mans features.
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Features Hatred
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
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
It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk.
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Banker Clerk Fog
The mobilization order is already written out. Every day, to earn my daily bread I go to the market where lies are bought Hopefully I take up my place among the sellers.
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Eran Hopefully Mobilization Out Place Seller Written
First the grub, then the morals.
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Firsts Miscellaneous Moral
Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.
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Mistake Moving Wisdom
Some party hack decreed that the people had lost the government’s confidence and could only regain it with redoubled effort. If that is the case, would it not be simpler, If the government simply dissolved the people And elected another?
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Government Party People
Who has good luck is good, Who has bad luck is bad.
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Bad Good Luck
There are men who struggle for a day and they are good. There are men who struggle for a year and they are better. There are men who struggle many years, and they are better still. But there are those who struggle all their lives: These are the indispensable ones.
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Men Struggle Years
Today every invention is received with a cry of triumph which soon turns into a cry of fear.
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Fear Today Triumph
The defeats and victories of the fellows at the top aren’t always defeats and victories for the fellows at the bottom.
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Defeat Sunset Victory

Even hatred of vileness Distorts a mans features.

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