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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

When the leaders speak of peace, the common folk know war is coming.
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Common Folk Leader War
I was called up in the war and sent to a hospital. I dressed wounds, applied iodine, gave enemas, did blood transfusions. If the doctor ordered: “Brecht, amputate a leg!”, I would reply, “Certainly, Your Excellency!”, and cut off the leg. If I was told, “Perform a trepanning!”
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Cutting Men Transfusion War
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
Little changes are the enemies of great changes.
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Change Enemy Littles
But something’s missing.
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Lot Missing Something
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
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
Boy Meets Girl, So What?
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Boys Broken Girl Heart
Life is short and so is money.
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Cute Life Money Short
Erst kommt das Fressen, dann kommt die Moral.
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Anger Dies Moral
Everyone needs help from everyone.
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Collaboration Helping Needs
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
Firebugs dragging their gasoline bottles are approaching the Academy of Arts, with a grin. And so, instead of embracing them, let us demand the freedom of the elbow to knock the bottles out of their filthy hands.
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Art Embrace Hands War
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
What they could do with ’round here is a good war. What else can you expect with peace running wild all over the place? You know what the trouble with peace is? No organization.
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Peace Running War
The fanatics for progress often have too little appreciation of the existing.
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Appreciation Littles Progress
I’m in good form, taking no interest in things, neglecting clothes, meals, company, and feeling calm and stable as I write.
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Clothes Feelings Writing
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
Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon.
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Book Men Weapons
If you wan to steal money, don’t rob a bank – open one.
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Money One Open Stealing
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
Grub first, then ethics.
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Cooking First Food
Science knows only one commandment – contribute to science.
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Account Knows Science
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
There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.
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Leadership Numbers Two
For once you must try not to shirk the facts: mankind is kept alive by bestial acts.
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Alive Sex Trying
The worst illiterate is the political illiterate. He hears nothing, sees nothing, takes no part in political life. He doesn’t seem to know that the cost of living, the price of beans, of flour, of rent, of medicines all depend on political decisions.
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Children Hate Ignorance

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