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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.

Bertolt Brecht

When the house of a great one collapses Many little ones are slain.
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Collapse House Littles
What a miserable thing life is: you’re in clover; only the clover isn’t good enough.
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Gratitude Life Sadness
If you wan to steal money, don’t rob a bank – open one.
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Money One Open Stealing
But something’s missing.
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Lot Missing Something
For time flows on, and if it did not, it would be a bad prospect for those who do not sit at golden tables.
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Order Reality Tables
To live means to finesse the processes to which one is subjugated.
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Finesse Mean Process
Schoenberg is too melodious for me, too sweet.
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Musical Schoenberg Sweet
The storm that bends the birch trees Is held to be violent But how about the storm That bends the backs of the roadworkers?
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Storm Tree Violent
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
One can describe the world of today to the people of today only if one describes it as capable of alteration.
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People Today World
One forgets too easily the difference between a man and his image, and that there is none between the sound of his voice on the screen and in real life.
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Men Real Screen Voice
General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.
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Defect Men Thinking
When crimes begin to pile up they become invisible. When sufferings become unendurable the cries are no longer heard. The cries, too, fall like rain in summer.
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Fall Rain Summer
…it is simplicity that is difficult to make.
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Design Difficult Simplicity Software
The man who laughs has simply not yet had the terrible news.
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Laughing Laughter Men
It’s all right to hesitate if you then go ahead.
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Ahead Literature Travel
Art and science coincide insofar as both aim to improve the lives of men and women.
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Art Fashion Mean
Sometimes it’s more important to be human, than to have good taste.
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Important Sometimes Taste
It’s never too late for those whose time has come.
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Come Late never Too
Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes.
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Happiness Hero Land
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
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
Some party hack decreed that the people had lost the government’s confidence and could only regain it with redoubled effort. If that is the case, would it not be simpler, If the government simply dissolved the people And elected another?
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Government Party People
Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.
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Death Fear Life
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
For art to be ‘unpolitical’ means only to ally itself with the ‘ruling’ group.
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Allies Art Mean
If you fight you might lose, if you don’t you have already lost.
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Fighting Lost

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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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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