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Bertolt Brecht

Little changes are the enemies of great changes.
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Change Enemy Littles
When evil-doing comes like falling rain, nobody calls out “stop!” 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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Become Doing Evil Invisible Suffering
Recently my fingers have developed a prejudice against comparatives. They all follow this pattern: a squirrel is smaller than a tree; a bird is more musical than a tree.
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Bird Perspective Squirrels
Writers can’t write as fast as governments make wars; because to write demands thinking.
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Thinking War Writing
There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.
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Leadership Numbers Two
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Comfortable Dog Newspaper Planting Shoe Singing
The worst illiterate is the political illiterate. He hears nothing, sees nothing, takes no part in political life. He doesn’t seem to know that the cost of living, the price of beans, of flour, of rent, of medicines all depend on political decisions.
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Children Hate Ignorance
The right to happiness is fundamental; men live so little time and die alone.
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Alone Happiness Joy Men
No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.
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Demand Literature Long
Science knows only one commandment – contribute to science.
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Account Knows Science
If you fight you might lose, if you don’t you have already lost.
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Fighting Lost
When you name yourself, you always name another.
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Always Another Names
The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn When teachers themselves are taught to learn.
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Crazy Literature Teacher
Grub first, then ethics.
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Cooking First Food
Fearful is the seductive power of goodness.
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Fearful Goodness Seductive
What’s a joy to the one is a nightmare to the other.
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Joy Nightmare One Other

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