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Bertolt Brecht

I don’t trust him. We’re friends.
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Friendship Negative Trust
First the grub, then the morals.
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Firsts Miscellaneous Moral
The finest plans are always ruined by the littleness of those who ought to carry them out, for emperor himself can actually be nothing.
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Emperor Finest Ruined
You have to attack once the truth is too weak to defend itself.
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Defend Truth Weak
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 pork chops, then morality
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Firsts Morality Pork
To live means to finesse the processes to which one is subjugated.
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Finesse Mean Process
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
Recently my fingers have developed a prejudice against comparatives. They all follow this pattern: a squirrel is smaller than a tree; a bird is more musical than a tree.
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Bird Perspective Squirrels
There are a few things that’ll move people to pity, a few, but the trouble is, when they’ve been used several times, they no longer work.
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Moving People Trouble
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
Nowadays, anyone who wishes to combat lies and ignorance and to write the truth must overcome at least five difficulties.
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Lying Running Writing
If you fight you might lose, if you don’t you have already lost.
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Fighting Lost
Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.
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Art Mirror Reality
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
He who fights, can lose. He who doesn’t fight, has already lost.
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Fighting Loses Lost

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