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The defeats and victories of the fellows at the top aren’t always defeats and victories for the fellows at the bottom.

Bertolt Brecht

Schoenberg is too melodious for me, too sweet.
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Musical Schoenberg Sweet
A man who strains himself on the stage is bound, if he is any good, to strain all the people sitting in the stalls.
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Acting Men People
I don’t like where I’m going and I don’t like where I’ve been. Why am I in a hurry?
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Going Hurry Like
It was never decreed that a god mustn’t pay hotel bills.
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Bills Hotel Pay
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
Then I will tell you something. I do not believe in it. Forty years among men has consistently taught me that they are not amenable to commonsense.
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Belief Men Running
The more innocent they are, the more they deserve to be shot.
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Deserve Innocent Shots
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
Love is the wish to give, not to receive.
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Giving Love Wish
The man who laughs has simply not yet had the terrible news.
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Laughing Laughter Men
Things take indeed a wondrous turn When learned men do stoop to learn.
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Men Scholarship Turns
We attacked a foreign people and treated them like rebels. As you know, it’s all right to treat barbarians barbarically. It’s the desire to be barbaric that makes governments call their enemies barbarians.
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Government People War
Even the most blockheaded bureaucrat, provided he loves peace, is a greater lover of the arts than any so-called art-lover who loves the arts of war.
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Even Greater Love Lover Peace Provided War
All artforms are in the service of the greatest of all arts: the art of living.
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Art Living Service
To those who does not know the world is on fire, I have nothing to say.
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Fire Nothing World
We often do not know ourselves the grounds On which we act, though plain to others.
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Ground Knows Others Ourselves

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