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People who fight may lose. People who do not fight have already lost.

Bertolt Brecht

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
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
If you wan to steal money, don’t rob a bank – open one.
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Money One Open Stealing
Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.
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Art Mirror Reality
Unfortunate the country that needs heroes!
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Country Hero Needs
Little changes are the enemies of great changes.
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Change Enemy Littles
None will improve your lot If you yourself do not.
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Inspirational Life Motivational
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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Peace Running War
Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes.
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Happiness Hero Land
I don’t trust him. We’re friends.
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Friendship Negative Trust
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
People who fight may lose. People who do not fight have already lost.
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Fighting May People
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
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
Unhappiness doesn’t grow on the chest like leprosy. Poverty won’t fall off the roof like a loose tile, no; poverty and unhappiness are man’s doing.
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Fall Men Tiles
First the pork chops, then morality
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Firsts Morality Pork

People who fight may lose. People who do not fight have already lost.

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