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For the task assigned them Men aren’t smart enough or sly Any rogue can blind them With a clever lie.

Bertolt Brecht

I’m in good form, taking no interest in things, neglecting clothes, meals, company, and feeling calm and stable as I write.
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Clothes Feelings Writing
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
People cannot remain good unless good is expected of them.
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Expected Good People Remain
What kind of times are they, when A talk about trees is almost a crime Because it implies silence about so many horrors?
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Kind Silence Tree
Impact lies in the vicinity of mistakes.
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Impact Lying Mistakes
But something’s missing.
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Lot Missing Something
To live means to finesse the processes to which one is subjugated.
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Finesse Mean Process
What’s a joy to the one is a nightmare to the other.
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Joy Nightmare One Other
Their peace and their war Are like wind and storm. War grows from their peace.
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Peace Storm War Wind
Alas,we who wanted kindness, could not be kind ourselves.
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Be Kind Kindness Wanted
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
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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Bother Carries Defect Faster General Man Storm
Boy Meets Girl, So What?
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Boys Broken Girl Heart
We need a type of theatre which not only releases the feelings, insights and impulses possible within the particular historical field of human relations in which the action takes place, but employs and encourages those thoughts and feelings which help transform the field itself.
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Feelings Historical Theatre
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
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

For the task assigned them Men aren’t smart enough or sly Any rogue can blind them With a clever lie.

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