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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.

Bertolt Brecht

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
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
Right is its own defense.
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Defense Literature Own Right
A theater without beer is just a museum
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Beer Museums Theater
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
Don’t tell me peace has broken out.
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Broken Out Peace
I don’t like where I’m going and I don’t like where I’ve been. Why am I in a hurry?
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Going Hurry Like
Firebugs dragging their gasoline bottles are approaching the Academy of Arts, with a grin. And so, instead of embracing them, let us demand the freedom of the elbow to knock the bottles out of their filthy hands.
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Art Embrace Hands War
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
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
You may proclaim, good sirs, your fine philosophy But till you feed us, right and wrong can wait!
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May Philosophy Waiting
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
Love is the wish to give, not to receive.
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Giving Love Wish
First the pork chops, then morality
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Firsts Morality Pork
As regards obstacles, the shortest distance between two points can be a curve.
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Curves Distance Two
People are too durable, that’s their main trouble. They can do too much to themselves, they last too long.
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Long People Silly

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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