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What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?

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
Never believe on faith, see for yourself! What you yourself don’t learn you don’t know.
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Believe Knows Learn
People who fight may lose. People who do not fight have already lost.
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Fighting May People
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
None will improve your lot If you yourself do not.
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Inspirational Life Motivational
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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Clever Lying Smart
The worst illiterate is the political illiterate. He hears nothing, sees nothing, takes no part in political life. He doesn’t seem to know that the cost of living, the price of beans, of flour, of rent, of medicines all depend on political decisions.
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Children Hate Ignorance
We often do not know ourselves the grounds On which we act, though plain to others.
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Ground Knows Others Ourselves
There are men who struggle for a day and they are good. There are men who struggle for a year and they are better. There are men who struggle many years, and they are better still. But there are those who struggle all their lives: These are the indispensable ones.
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Men Struggle Years
Each of us is the strongest one in his or her own skin. Characteristics should take off their hats to one another, instead of spitting in each other’s faces.
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Characteristics Each Face Spitting
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
People remain what they are even if their faces fall apart.
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Faces Fall People
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
Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.
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Poverty Wells Wise
He who is still laughing is he who hasn’t heard the terrible news.
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Laughing News Terrible
He who fights, can lose. He who doesn’t fight, has already lost.
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Fighting Loses Lost

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