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If you join the rat race — you’re in the race of rats.

Bertolt Brecht

People are too durable, that’s their main trouble. They can do too much to themselves, they last too long.
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Long People Silly
One must live well to know what living is.
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Knows Live Must Well
Would it not be simpler If the Government dissolved the people and elected another?
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Another Government People
When you name yourself, you always name another.
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Always Another Names
There are times when you have to choose between being human and having good taste.
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Being Good Human Nature Taste
The righteous one has no sense of humor.
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Humor One Righteous Sense
When something seems ‘the most obvious thing in the world’ it means that any attempt to understand the world has been given up.
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Mean World
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
Writers can’t write as fast as governments make wars; because to write demands thinking.
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Thinking War Writing
The more innocent they are, the more they deserve to be shot.
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Deserve Innocent Shots
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
From the cradle to the coffin underwear comes first.
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Clean Coffins Literature Underwear
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
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
He who speaks of enemies , himself is the enemy.
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Enemy Himself Speak
One can describe the world of today to the people of today only if one describes it as capable of alteration.
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People Today World

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