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Poverty makes you wise but it’s a curse.

Bertolt Brecht

Don’t accept the habitual as a natural thing. In times of disorder, of organized confusion, of de-humanized humanity, nothing should seem natural. Nothing should seem impossible to change.
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Confusion Humanity Impossible
There are times when you have to choose between being human and having good taste.
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Being Good Human Nature Taste
It’s all right to hesitate if you then go ahead.
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Ahead Literature Travel
Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
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Change Moving Stay Strong
If you fight you might lose, if you don’t you have already lost.
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Fighting Lost
We attacked a foreign people and treated them like rebels. As you know, it’s all right to treat barbarians barbarically. It’s the desire to be barbaric that makes governments call their enemies barbarians.
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Government People War
Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must change.
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Order Reality Representation
There are a few things that’ll move people to pity, a few, but the trouble is, when they’ve been used several times, they no longer work.
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Moving People Trouble
We often do not know ourselves the grounds On which we act, though plain to others.
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Ground Knows Others Ourselves
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
First the grub, then the morals.
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Firsts Miscellaneous Moral
There are some with brains and some without. It makes for a better division of labour.
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Brain Division Labor
When the house of a great one collapses Many little ones are slain.
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Collapse House Littles
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
Never believe on faith, see for yourself! What you yourself don’t learn you don’t know.
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Believe Knows Learn
For what’s the use of talking with a man who has a disease and thinks about the stars?
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Men Stars Thinking

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