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Nowadays, anyone who wishes to combat lies and ignorance and to write the truth must overcome at least five difficulties.

Bertolt Brecht

When the leaders speak of peace, the common folk know war is coming.
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Common Folk Leader War
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
Grub first, then ethics.
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Cooking First Food
The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn When teachers themselves are taught to learn.
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Crazy Literature Teacher
Those against politics are in favor of the politics inflicted upon them.
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Democracy Favors Freedom
You can make a fresh start with your final breath.
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Breaths Finals Fresh Start
Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.
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Art Mirror Reality
Sometimes it’s more important to be human, than to have good taste.
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Important Sometimes Taste
General, your bomber is powerful. It flies faster than a storm and carries more than an elephant. But it has one defect: It needs a mechanic. General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.
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Bother Carries Defect Faster General Man Storm
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
If you join the rat race — you’re in the race of rats.
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Join Race Rat
Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes.
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Happiness Hero Land
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
Right is its own defense.
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Defense Literature Own Right
Something ignoble, loathsome, undignified attends all associations between people and has been transferred to all objects, dwelling, tools, even the landscape itself.
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Dwelling Object People Tool
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

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