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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.

Bertolt Brecht

Don’t be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.
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Anticipation Death Life
General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.
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Defect Men Thinking
All the gang of those who rule us Hope our quarrels never stop Helping them to split and fool us So they can remain on top.
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Fool Government Splits
People remain what they are even if their faces fall apart.
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Faces Fall People
First the grub, then the morals.
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Firsts Miscellaneous Moral
Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon.
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Book Men Weapons
The fanatics for progress often have too little appreciation of the existing.
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Appreciation Littles Progress
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
What a miserable thing life is: you’re in clover; only the clover isn’t good enough.
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Gratitude Life Sadness
Why be a man when you can be a success?
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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 righteous one has no sense of humor.
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Humor One Righteous Sense
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
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
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
What kind of times are they, when A talk about trees is almost a crime Because it implies silence about so many horrors?
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Kind Silence Tree

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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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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