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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.

Bertolt Brecht

Then I will tell you something. I do not believe in it. Forty years among men has consistently taught me that they are not amenable to commonsense.
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Belief Men Running
General, your tank is a powerful vehicle It smashes down forests and crushes a hundred men. But it has one defect: It needs a driver.
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Crush Men Powerful
It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk.
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Banker Clerk Fog
In the dark times Will there also be singing? Yes, there will also be singing. About the dark times.
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Dark Inspirational Singing
Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.
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Mistake Moving Wisdom
When the wound/ No longer hurts/ The scar does.
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Doe Hurt Scar
You don’t need to pray to God any more when there are storms in the sky, but you do have to be insured.
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God Sky Storm
The right to happiness is fundamental; men live so little time and die alone.
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Alone Happiness Joy Men
Don’t be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.
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Anticipation Death Life
For what’s the use of talking with a man who has a disease and thinks about the stars?
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Men Stars Thinking
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
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
Sometimes it’s more important to be human, than to have good taste.
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Important Sometimes Taste
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
To live means to finesse the processes to which one is subjugated.
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Finesse Mean Process
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

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