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Grub first, then ethics.

Bertolt Brecht

To those who does not know the world is on fire, I have nothing to say.
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Fire Nothing World
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
If you join the rat race — you’re in the race of rats.
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Join Race Rat
Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon.
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Book Men Weapons
Impact lies in the vicinity of mistakes.
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Impact Lying Mistakes
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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Majority Purpose Shoulders
Boy Meets Girl, So What?
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Boys Broken Girl Heart
He who fights, can lose. He who doesn’t fight, has already lost.
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Fighting Loses Lost
Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.
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Death Fear Life
What rapture, oh, it is to know A good thing when you see it And having seen a good thing, oh, What rapture ’tis to flee it.
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Good Knows Rapture Things
One must live well to know what living is.
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Knows Live Must Well
Art and science coincide insofar as both aim to improve the lives of men and women.
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Art Fashion Mean
What a miserable thing life is: you’re in clover; only the clover isn’t good enough.
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Gratitude Life Sadness
Everyone needs help from everyone.
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Collaboration Helping Needs
Who fights may lose, but who does not fight has lost already.
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Already Fighting May
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

Grub first, then ethics.

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