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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

Poverty makes you wise but it’s a curse.
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Curse Poverty Wise
I don’t like where I’m going and I don’t like where I’ve been. Why am I in a hurry?
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Going Hurry Like
Some party hack decreed that the people had lost the government’s confidence and could only regain it with redoubled effort. If that is the case, would it not be simpler, If the government simply dissolved the people And elected another?
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Government Party People
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
Little changes are the enemies of great changes.
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Change Enemy Littles
…it is simplicity that is difficult to make.
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Design Difficult Simplicity Software
What a miserable thing life is: you’re in clover; only the clover isn’t good enough.
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Gratitude Life Sadness
Those who take the most from the table, teach contentment. Those for whom the taxes are destined, demand sacrifice. Those who eat their fill, speak to the hungry, of wonderful times to come. Those who lead the country into the abyss, call ruling difficult, for ordinary folk.
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Contentment Country Sacrifice
He who fights, can lose. He who doesn’t fight, has already lost.
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Fighting Loses Lost
Suppose they gave a war, and nobody came? Why then, the war would come to you!
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Politics Suppose War
The mill wheel turns, it turns forever, though what is uppermost remains not so.
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Forever Mills Wheels
When crimes begin to pile up they become invisible. When sufferings become unendurable the cries are no longer heard. The cries, too, fall like rain in summer.
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Fall Rain Summer
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
Don’t be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.
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Anticipation Death Life
The righteous one has no sense of humor.
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Humor One Righteous Sense
I don’t trust him. We’re friends.
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Friendship Negative Trust

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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