What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?
BERTOLT BRECHTAll 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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Here today we huddle tight As the darkest heathens might The snow falls chilly on our skin The snow is forcing its way in. Hush, snow, come in with us to dwell: We were thrown out by Heaven as well.
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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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With drooping shoulders The majority sit hunched, their foreheads furrowed like Stony ground that has been repeatedly ploughed-up to no purpose.
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It is not enough to demand insight and informative images of reality from the theater. Our theater must stimulate a desire for understanding, a delight in changing reality.
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One must live well to know what living is.
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The fanatics for progress often have too little appreciation of the existing.
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Nowadays, anyone who wishes to combat lies and ignorance and to write the truth must overcome at least five difficulties.
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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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In the dark times Will there also be singing? Yes, there will also be singing. About the dark times.
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For time flows on, and if it did not, it would be a bad prospect for those who do not sit at golden tables.
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Today every invention is received with a cry of triumph which soon turns into a cry of fear.
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When the wound/ No longer hurts/ The scar does.
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People remain what they are even if their faces fall apart.
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What’s breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank?
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Go make yourself a plan And be a shining light. Then make yourself a second plan, For neither will come right.
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