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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.

Bertolt Brecht

The headlong stream is termed violent But the river bed hemming it in is Termed violent by no one.
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Bed Rivers Violent
Though the rich of this earth find no difficulty in creating misery, they can’t bear to see it.
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Bears Creating Earth
When evil-doing comes like falling rain, nobody calls out “stop!” 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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Become Doing Evil Invisible Suffering
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
We often do not know ourselves the grounds On which we act, though plain to others.
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Ground Knows Others Ourselves
Today every invention is received with a cry of triumph which soon turns into a cry of fear.
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Fear Today Triumph
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
Love is the wish to give, not to receive.
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Giving Love Wish
Science knows only one commandment – contribute to science.
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Account Knows Science
Why be a man when you can be a success?
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Inspirational Life Motivational
For art to be ‘unpolitical’ means only to ally itself with the ‘ruling’ group.
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Allies Art Mean
If you fight you might lose, if you don’t you have already lost.
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Fighting Lost
To those who does not know the world is on fire, I have nothing to say.
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Fire Nothing World
A good soldier has his heart and soul in it. When he receives an order, he gets a hard on, and when he drives his lance through his enemy’s guts, he comes.
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Art Heart Order Philosophy
If you don’t have fun, you don’t have a show.
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Fun Inspirational Shows
When the leaders speak of peace The common folk know That war is coming When the leaders curse war
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Common Folk Lying War

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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