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There are a few things that’ll move people to pity, a few, but the trouble is, when they’ve been used several times, they no longer work.

Bertolt Brecht

The man who laughs has simply not yet had the terrible news.
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Laughing Laughter Men
There are times when you have to choose between being human and having good taste.
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Being Good Human Nature Taste
Only bad generals need heroes.
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General Hero Needs
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
The fanatics for progress often have too little appreciation of the existing.
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Appreciation Littles Progress
Their peace and their war Are like wind and storm. War grows from their peace.
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Peace Storm War Wind
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
The newspaper The dog Dialectics Showering, swimming Old music Comfortable shoes Comprehension New music Writing, planting Traveling Singing Being friendly
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Comfortable Dog Newspaper Planting Shoe Singing
Eats first, morals after.
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Eat Firsts Moral
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
People remain what they are even if their faces fall apart.
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Faces Fall People
Science knows only one commandment – contribute to science.
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Account Knows Science
Sin is what is new, strong, surprising, strange. The theatre must take an interest in sin if the young are to be able to go there.
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Able Strong Theatre
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
Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.
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Art Mirror Reality
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

There are a few things that’ll move people to pity, a few, but the trouble is, when they’ve been used several times, they no longer work.

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