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You have to attack once the truth is too weak to defend itself.

Bertolt Brecht

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
General, your tank is a powerful vehicle It smashes down forests and crushes a hundred men. But it has one defect: It needs a driver.
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Crush Men Powerful
When the praying does no good, insurance does help.
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Helping Insurance Praying
Boy Meets Girl, So What?
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Boys Broken Girl Heart
For art to be ‘unpolitical’ means only to ally itself with the ‘ruling’ group.
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Allies Art Mean
Sometimes it’s more important to be human, than to have good taste.
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Important Sometimes Taste
If you wan to steal money, don’t rob a bank – open one.
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Money One Open Stealing
First the pork chops, then morality
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Firsts Morality Pork
Don’t tell me peace has broken out.
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Broken Out Peace
Who does Not Know the Truth, is simply a Fool… Yet who Knows the Truth and Calls it a Lie, is a Criminal.
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Criminals Doe Lying
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
Let nothing be called natural In an age of bloody confusion, Ordered disorder, planned caprice, And dehumanized humanity, lest all things Be held unalterable!
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Confusion Humanity Nature
Unhappiness doesn’t grow on the chest like leprosy. Poverty won’t fall off the roof like a loose tile, no; poverty and unhappiness are man’s doing.
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Fall Men Tiles
It isn’t important to come out on top, what matters is to be the one who comes out alive.
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Acceptance Important Matters
We often do not know ourselves the grounds On which we act, though plain to others.
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Ground Knows Others Ourselves
Don’t be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.
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Anticipation Death Life

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