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Today every invention is received with a cry of triumph which soon turns into a cry of fear.

Bertolt Brecht

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
It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk.
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Banker Clerk Fog
If you fight you might lose, if you don’t you have already lost.
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Fighting Lost
Don’t tell me peace has broken out.
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Broken Out Peace
Poverty makes you wise but it’s a curse.
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Curse Poverty Wise
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
First feed the face, then talk right and wrong.
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Faces Firsts Talk
Who has good luck is good, Who has bad luck is bad.
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Bad Good Luck
Here today we huddle tight As the darkest heathens might The snow falls chilly on our skin The snow is forcing its way in. Hush, snow, come in with us to dwell: We were thrown out by Heaven as well.
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Fall Heaven Snow
Would it not be simpler If the Government dissolved the people and elected another?
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Another Government People
Today every invention is received with a cry of triumph which soon turns into a cry of fear.
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Fear Today Triumph
In the contradiction lies the hope.
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Contradiction Hope Lying
The rain Never falls upwards. When the wound Stops hurting What hurts is The scar.
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Fall Hurt Rain
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
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
You don’t need to pray to God any more when there are storms in the sky, but you do have to be insured.
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God Sky Storm

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