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When the house of a great one collapses Many little ones are slain.

Bertolt Brecht

Art and science coincide insofar as both aim to improve the lives of men and women.
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Art Fashion Mean
It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk.
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Banker Clerk Fog
Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must change.
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Order Reality Representation
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
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
Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.
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Mistake Moving Wisdom
People who understand everything get no stories.
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People Stories Understand
Things take indeed a wondrous turn When learned men do stoop to learn.
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Men Scholarship Turns
There must always be some who are brighter and some who are stupider, the latter make up for it by being better workers.
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Latter Stupidity Workers
Art is not a mirror. Art is a hammer.
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Art Hammers Mirrors
If you fight you might lose, if you don’t you have already lost.
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Fighting Lost
The war which is coming Is not the first one. There were Other wars before it. When the last one came to an end There were conquerors and conquered. Among the conquered the common people Starved. Among the conquerors The common people starved too.
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Lasts People War
To those who does not know the world is on fire, I have nothing to say.
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Fire Nothing World
Erst kommt das Fressen, dann kommt die Moral.
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Anger Dies Moral
What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?
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Cheesy Funny Gone Good Morning
For once you must try not to shirk the facts: mankind is kept alive by bestial acts.
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Alive Sex Trying

When the house of a great one collapses Many little ones are slain.

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