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There are some with brains and some without. It makes for a better division of labour.

Bertolt Brecht

In my view, the great and complicated things that go on in the world cannot be adequately recognized by people who do not use every possible aid to understanding.
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Adequately Great Recognized Understanding
When the leaders speak of peace, the common folk know war is coming.
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Common Folk Leader War
Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.
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Poverty Wells Wise
As regards obstacles, the shortest distance between two points can be a curve.
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Curves Distance Two
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
Poverty makes you wise but it’s a curse.
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Curse Poverty Wise
General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.
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Defect Men Thinking
There are times when you have to choose between being human and having good taste.
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Being Good Human Nature Taste
It is not enough to demand insight and informative images of reality from the theater. Our theater must stimulate a desire for understanding, a delight in changing reality.
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Art Discovery Reality
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
Who has good luck is good, Who has bad luck is bad.
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Bad Good Luck
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
Terrible is the temptation to be good.
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Be Good Temptation Terrible
Unhappiness doesn’t grow on the chest like leprosy. Poverty won’t fall off the roof like a loose tile, no; poverty and unhappiness are man’s doing.
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Fall Men Tiles
Suppose they gave a war, and nobody came? Why then, the war would come to you!
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Politics Suppose War
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

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