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To those who does not know the world is on fire, I have nothing to say.

Bertolt Brecht

Suppose they gave a war, and nobody came? Why then, the war would come to you!
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Politics Suppose War
When the leaders speak of peace The common folk know That war is coming When the leaders curse war
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Common Folk Lying War
The fanatics for progress often have too little appreciation of the existing.
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Appreciation Littles Progress
People are too durable, that’s their main trouble. They can do too much to themselves, they last too long.
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Long People Silly
You have to attack once the truth is too weak to defend itself.
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Defend Truth Weak
The storm that bends the birch trees Is held to be violent But how about the storm That bends the backs of the roadworkers?
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Storm Tree Violent
Spring is noticed, if at all By people sitting in railway trains.
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People Sitting Spring
From the cradle to the coffin underwear comes first.
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Clean Coffins Literature Underwear
Oh why do we not say the important things, it would be so easy, and we are damned because we do not.
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Dammed Easy Important
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
Sin is what is new, strong, surprising, strange. The theatre must take an interest in sin if the young are to be able to go there.
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Able Strong Theatre
One can describe the world of today to the people of today only if one describes it as capable of alteration.
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People Today World
What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank?
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Founding Funny Money Robbing
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
When something seems ‘the most obvious thing in the world’ it means that any attempt to understand the world has been given up.
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Mean World
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

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