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…it is simplicity that is difficult to make.

Bertolt Brecht

Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.
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Mistake Moving Wisdom
Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must also change. Nothing comes from nothing; the new comes from the old, but that is why it is new.
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Change Nothing Reality Representation
Boy Meets Girl, So What?
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Boys Broken Girl Heart
There are times when you have to choose between being human and having good taste.
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Being Good Human Nature Taste
From the cradle to the coffin underwear comes first.
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Clean Coffins Literature Underwear
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
Their peace and their war Are like wind and storm. War grows from their peace.
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Peace Storm War Wind
Of all the works of man I like best Those which have been used. The copper pots with their dents and flattened edges The knives and forks whose wooden handles Have been worn away by many hands: such forms Seemed to me the noblest.
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Approaching Folk Hands Knives Men
A good soldier has his heart and soul in it. When he receives an order, he gets a hard on, and when he drives his lance through his enemy’s guts, he comes.
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Art Heart Order Philosophy
For the task assigned them Men aren’t smart enough or sly Any rogue can blind them With a clever lie.
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Clever Lying Smart
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
Impact lies in the vicinity of mistakes.
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Impact Lying Mistakes
General, your tank is a powerful vehicle It smashes down forests and crushes a hundred men. But it has one defect: It needs a driver.
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Crush Men Powerful
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
Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon.
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Book Men Weapons
The fanatics for progress often have too little appreciation of the existing.
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Appreciation Littles Progress

…it is simplicity that is difficult to make.

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…it is simplicity that is difficult to make.

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