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First the grub, then the morals.

Bertolt Brecht

Art and science work in quite different ways: agreed. But, bad as it may sound, I have to admit that I cannot get along as an artist without the use of one or two sciences. …
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Art Science Views Work
I Who live in Los Angeles and not in London Find, on thinking about Hell, that it must be Still more like Los Angeles.
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About Country Live Place
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
Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.
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Mistake Moving Wisdom
There are some with brains and some without. It makes for a better division of labour.
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Brain Division Labor
People who understand everything get no stories.
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People Stories Understand
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
Everyone needs help from everyone.
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Collaboration Helping Needs
With drooping shoulders The majority sit hunched, their foreheads furrowed like Stony ground that has been repeatedly ploughed-up to no purpose.
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Majority Purpose Shoulders
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
Then I will tell you something. I do not believe in it. Forty years among men has consistently taught me that they are not amenable to commonsense.
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Belief Men Running
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
Who struggles can fail. Who doesn’t struggle has already failed!
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Diversity Justice Struggle
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
It’s all right to hesitate if you then go ahead.
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Ahead Literature Travel
Even the most blockheaded bureaucrat, provided he loves peace, is a greater lover of the arts than any so-called art-lover who loves the arts of war.
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Even Greater Love Lover Peace Provided War

First the grub, then the morals.

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