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The shrill voices of those who give orders Are full of fear like the squeakings of Piglets awaiting the butcher’s knife, as their fat arses Sweat with anxiety in their office chairs…. Fear rules not only those who are ruled, but The rulers too.

Bertolt Brecht

The right to happiness is fundamental; men live so little time and die alone.
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Alone Happiness Joy Men
Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
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Change Moving Stay Strong
Spring is noticed, if at all By people sitting in railway trains.
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People Sitting Spring
The shrill voices of those who give orders Are full of fear like the squeakings of Piglets awaiting the butcher’s knife, as their fat arses Sweat with anxiety in their office chairs…. Fear rules not only those who are ruled, but The rulers too.
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Knives Order Sweat
He who fights, can lose. He who doesn’t fight, has already lost.
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Fighting Loses Lost
The mill wheel turns, it turns forever, though what is uppermost remains not so.
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Forever Mills Wheels
I opened the man’s skull and messed about with his brains. I saw how they patched fellows up, so as to cart them back to the Front as quickly as they could.
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Brains Cart Front Patch Skull
As regards obstacles, the shortest distance between two points can be a curve.
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Curves Distance Two
The fanatics for progress often have too little appreciation of the existing.
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Appreciation Littles Progress
He who speaks of enemies , himself is the enemy.
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Enemy Himself Speak
Pleasures First look from morning’s window The rediscovered book Fascinated faces Snow, the change of the seasons
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Book Change Dog Morning
Unfortunate the country that needs heroes!
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Country Hero Needs
The defeats and victories of the fellows at the top aren’t always defeats and victories for the fellows at the bottom.
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Defeat Sunset Victory
The first time it was reported that our friends were being butchered there was a cry of horror. Then a hundred were butchered. But when a thousand were butchered and there was no end to the butchery, a blanket of silence spread.
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Fall Rain Summer
Who has good luck is good, Who has bad luck is bad.
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Bad Good Luck
One forgets too easily the difference between a man and his image, and that there is none between the sound of his voice on the screen and in real life.
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Men Real Screen Voice

The shrill voices of those who give orders Are full of fear like the squeakings of Piglets awaiting the butcher’s knife, as their fat arses Sweat with anxiety in their office chairs…. Fear rules not only those who are ruled, but The rulers too.

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The shrill voices of those who give orders Are full of fear like the squeakings of Piglets awaiting the butcher’s knife, as their fat arses Sweat with anxiety in their office chairs…. Fear rules not only those who are ruled, but The rulers too.

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