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A theater without beer is just a museum

Bertolt Brecht

The headlong stream is termed violent But the river bed hemming it in is Termed violent by no one.
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Bed Rivers Violent
Right is its own defense.
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Defense Literature Own Right
Love is the wish to give, not to receive.
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Giving Love Wish
Realist writing, of which history offers many widely varying examples, is likewise conditioned by the question of how, when and for what class it is made use of.
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Condition Example Made Realist
Terrible is the temptation to be good.
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Be Good Temptation Terrible
Young Alexander conquered India. He alone? Caesar beat the Gauls. Was there not even a cook in his army? Philip of Spain wept as his fleet was sunk and destroyed. Were there no other tears? Frederick the Great triumphed in the Seven Years War. Who Triumphed with him?
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Army War Years
The finest plans have always been spoiled by the littleness of them that should carry them out. Even emperors can’t do it all by themselves.
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Finest Spoil
You don’t need to pray to God any more when there are storms in the sky, but you do have to be insured.
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God Sky Storm
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
Sometimes it’s more important to be human, than to have good taste.
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Important Sometimes Taste
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
What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank?
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Founding Funny Money Robbing
Even hatred of vileness Distorts a mans features.
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Features Hatred
The righteous one has no sense of humor.
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Humor One Righteous Sense
It isn’t important to come out on top, what matters is to be the one who comes out alive.
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Acceptance Important Matters
For what’s the use of talking with a man who has a disease and thinks about the stars?
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Men Stars Thinking

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