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From the cradle to the coffin underwear comes first.

Bertolt Brecht

Mixing one’s wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.
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Mistake Wine Wisdom
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
Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon.
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Book Men Weapons
He who fights, can lose. He who doesn’t fight, has already lost.
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Fighting Loses Lost
The fanatics for progress often have too little appreciation of the existing.
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Appreciation Littles Progress
One cannot be arraigned for declaring a war, which every ruler has to do once in a while, but only for running a war badly.
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Declaring Running War
Everyone needs help from everyone.
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Collaboration Helping Needs
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
People remain what they are even if their faces fall apart.
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Faces Fall People
To those who does not know the world is on fire, I have nothing to say.
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Fire Nothing World
Who does Not Know the Truth, is simply a Fool… Yet who Knows the Truth and Calls it a Lie, is a Criminal.
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Criminals Doe Lying
Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.
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Art Mirror Reality
When crimes begin to pile up they become invisible. When sufferings become unendurable the cries are no longer heard. The cries, too, fall like rain in summer.
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Fall Rain Summer
One must live well to know what living is.
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Knows Live Must Well
Though the rich of this earth find no difficulty in creating misery, they can’t bear to see it.
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Bears Creating Earth
Little changes are the enemies of great changes.
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Change Enemy Littles

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