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To live means to finesse the processes to which one is subjugated.

Bertolt Brecht

Though the rich of this earth find no difficulty in creating misery, they can’t bear to see it.
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Bears Creating Earth
If you join the rat race — you’re in the race of rats.
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Join Race Rat
What’s breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank?
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Banking Breaking Literature Silence
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
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
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
First the grub, then the morals.
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Firsts Miscellaneous Moral
Those who take the most from the table, teach contentment. Those for whom the taxes are destined, demand sacrifice. Those who eat their fill, speak to the hungry, of wonderful times to come. Those who lead the country into the abyss, call ruling difficult, for ordinary folk.
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Contentment Country Sacrifice
The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set a limit to infinite error.
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Errors Science Wisdom
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
The mobilization order is already written out. Every day, to earn my daily bread I go to the market where lies are bought Hopefully I take up my place among the sellers.
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Eran Hopefully Mobilization Out Place Seller Written
Bank robbery is an initiative of amateurs. True professionals establish a bank.
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Bank Initiative Robbery
When something seems ‘the most obvious thing in the world’ it means that any attempt to understand the world has been given up.
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Mean World
I was called up in the war and sent to a hospital. I dressed wounds, applied iodine, gave enemas, did blood transfusions. If the doctor ordered: “Brecht, amputate a leg!”, I would reply, “Certainly, Your Excellency!”, and cut off the leg. If I was told, “Perform a trepanning!”
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Cutting Men Transfusion War
Eats first, morals after.
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Eat Firsts Moral
Don’t be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.
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Anticipation Death Life

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