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The mill wheel turns, it turns forever, though what is uppermost remains not so.

Bertolt Brecht

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
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
There are some with brains and some without. It makes for a better division of labour.
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Brain Division Labor
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
There are times when you have to choose between being human and having good taste.
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Being Good Human Nature Taste
Life is short and so is money.
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Cute Life Money Short
The rain Never falls upwards. When the wound Stops hurting What hurts is The scar.
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Fall Hurt Rain
Fearful is the seductive power of goodness.
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Fearful Goodness Seductive
The fanatics for progress often have too little appreciation of the existing.
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Appreciation Littles Progress
Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must change.
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Order Reality Representation
Love is also like a coconut which is good while it is fresh, but you have to spit it out when the juice is gone, what’s left tastes bitter.
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Gone Love Sad Taste
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
All the gang of those who rule us Hope our quarrels never stop Helping them to split and fool us So they can remain on top.
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Fool Government Splits
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
What’s a joy to the one is a nightmare to the other.
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Joy Nightmare One Other
The human race tends to remember the abuses to which it has been subjected rather than the endearments. What’s left of kisses? Wounds, however, leave scars.
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Abuse Kissing Race

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