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All the gang of those who rule us Hope our quarrels never stop Helping them to split and fool us So they can remain on top.

Bertolt Brecht

There are some with brains and some without. It makes for a better division of labour.
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Brain Division Labor
Bank robbery is an initiative of amateurs. True professionals establish a bank.
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Bank Initiative Robbery
Only bad generals need heroes.
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General Hero Needs
Would it not be simpler If the Government dissolved the people and elected another?
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Another Government People
In the contradiction lies the hope.
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Contradiction Hope Lying
He who is still laughing is he who hasn’t heard the terrible news.
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Laughing News Terrible
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
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
One forgets too easily the difference between a man and his image, and that there is none between the sound of his voice on the screen and in real life.
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Men Real Screen Voice
From the start it has been the theatre’s business to entertain people … it needs no other passport than fun.
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Fun People Theatre
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
It was never decreed that a god mustn’t pay hotel bills.
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Bills Hotel Pay
First the pork chops, then morality
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Firsts Morality Pork
From the cradle to the coffin underwear comes first.
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Clean Coffins Literature Underwear
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
The headlong stream is termed violent But the river bed hemming it in is Termed violent by no one.
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Bed Rivers Violent

All the gang of those who rule us Hope our quarrels never stop Helping them to split and fool us So they can remain on top.

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