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Sometimes it’s more important to be human, than to have good taste.

Bertolt Brecht

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
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
There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.
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Leadership Numbers Two
A theater without beer is just a museum
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Beer Museums Theater
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
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
Fearful is the seductive power of goodness.
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Fearful Goodness Seductive
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
When the house of a great one collapses Many little ones are slain.
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Collapse House Littles
I opened the man’s skull and messed about with his brains. I saw how they patched fellows up, so as to cart them back to the Front as quickly as they could.
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Brains Cart Front Patch Skull
Right is its own defense.
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Defense Literature Own Right
First the grub, then the morals.
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Firsts Miscellaneous Moral
Terrible is the temptation to be good.
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Be Good Temptation Terrible
In my view, the great and complicated things that go on in the world cannot be adequately recognized by people who do not use every possible aid to understanding.
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Adequately Great Recognized Understanding
Sometimes it’s more important to be human, than to have good taste.
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Important Sometimes Taste
There are some with brains and some without. It makes for a better division of labour.
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Brain Division Labor

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