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The headlong stream is termed violent But the river bed hemming it in is Termed violent by no one.

Bertolt Brecht

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
Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.
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Death Fear Life
A man who strains himself on the stage is bound, if he is any good, to strain all the people sitting in the stalls.
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Acting Men People
Only bad generals need heroes.
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General Hero Needs
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
Love is also like a coconut which is good while it is fresh, but you have to spit it out when the juice is gone, what’s left tastes bitter.
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Gone Love Sad Taste
In the contradiction lies the hope.
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Contradiction Hope Lying
Right is its own defense.
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Defense Literature Own Right
Oh why do we not say the important things, it would be so easy, and we are damned because we do not.
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Dammed Easy Important
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
All artforms are in the service of the greatest of all arts: the art of living.
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Art Living Service
The human race tends to remember the abuses to which it has been subjected rather than the endearments. What’s left of kisses? Wounds, however, leave scars.
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Abuse Kissing Race
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
From the cradle to the coffin underwear comes first.
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Clean Coffins Literature Underwear
What they could do with ’round here is a good war. What else can you expect with peace running wild all over the place? You know what the trouble with peace is? No organization.
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Peace Running War
Go make yourself a plan And be a shining light. Then make yourself a second plan, For neither will come right.
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Light Planning Shining

The headlong stream is termed violent But the river bed hemming it in is Termed violent by no one.

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