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Grub first, then ethics.

Bertolt Brecht

The war which is coming Is not the first one. There were Other wars before it. When the last one came to an end There were conquerors and conquered. Among the conquered the common people Starved. Among the conquerors The common people starved too.
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Lasts People War
Come in, dear wind, and be our guest You too have neither home nor rest.
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Guest Home Wind
No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.
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Demand Literature Long
Who has good luck is good, Who has bad luck is bad.
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Bad Good Luck
As regards obstacles, the shortest distance between two points can be a curve.
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Curves Distance Two
If you wan to steal money, don’t rob a bank – open one.
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Money One Open Stealing
It’s all right to hesitate if you then go ahead.
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Ahead Literature Travel
Love is also like a coconut which is good while it is fresh, but you have to spit it out when the juice is gone, what’s left tastes bitter.
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Gone Love Sad Taste
Sometimes it’s more important to be human, than to have good taste.
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Important Sometimes Taste
What’s breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank?
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Banking Breaking Literature Silence
Our audience must experience not only the ways to free Prometheus, but be schooled in the very desire to free him. Theater must teach all the pleasures and joys of discovery, all the feelings of triumph associated with liberation.
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Audience Discovery Experience Joy Pleasure Schooled
The human race tends to remember the abuses to which it has been subjected rather than the endearments. What’s left of kisses? Wounds, however, leave scars.
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Abuse Kissing Race
The shrill voices of those who give orders Are full of fear like the squeakings of Piglets awaiting the butcher’s knife, as their fat arses Sweat with anxiety in their office chairs…. Fear rules not only those who are ruled, but The rulers too.
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Knives Order Sweat
The righteous one has no sense of humor.
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Humor One Righteous Sense
Their peace and their war Are like wind and storm. War grows from their peace.
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Peace Storm War Wind
One must live well to know what living is.
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Knows Live Must Well

Grub first, then ethics.

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