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Those who take the most from the table, teach contentment. Those for whom the taxes are destined, demand sacrifice. Those who eat their fill, speak to the hungry, of wonderful times to come. Those who lead the country into the abyss, call ruling difficult, for ordinary folk.

Bertolt Brecht

Show them the red tail of a comet, fill them with black terror, and they will all come running out of their houses and break their legs. But tell them one sensible proposition, and support it with seven reasons, and they will simply laugh in your face.
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Black Proposition Running Sensible Show Support
The fanatics for progress often have too little appreciation of the existing.
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Appreciation Littles Progress
It’s all right to hesitate if you then go ahead.
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Ahead Literature Travel
Of all the works of man I like best Those which have been used. The copper pots with their dents and flattened edges The knives and forks whose wooden handles Have been worn away by many hands: such forms Seemed to me the noblest.
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Approaching Folk Hands Knives Men
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
For time flows on, and if it did not, it would be a bad prospect for those who do not sit at golden tables.
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Order Reality Tables
To those who does not know the world is on fire, I have nothing to say.
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Fire Nothing World
The more innocent they are, the more they deserve to be shot.
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Deserve Innocent Shots
You can’t write poems about trees when the woods are full of policemen.
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Tree Wood Writing
It was never decreed that a god mustn’t pay hotel bills.
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Bills Hotel Pay
There are men who struggle for a day and they are good. There are men who struggle for a year and they are better. There are men who struggle many years, and they are better still. But there are those who struggle all their lives: These are the indispensable ones.
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Men Struggle Years
People who fight may lose. People who do not fight have already lost.
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Fighting May People
What they could do with ’round here is a good war. What else can you expect with peace running wild all over the place? You know what the trouble with peace is? No organization.
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Peace Running War
First the grub, then the morals.
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Firsts Miscellaneous Moral
Science knows only one commandment – contribute to science.
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Account Knows Science
For once you must try not to shirk the facts: mankind is kept alive by bestial acts.
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Alive Sex Trying

Those who take the most from the table, teach contentment. Those for whom the taxes are destined, demand sacrifice. Those who eat their fill, speak to the hungry, of wonderful times to come. Those who lead the country into the abyss, call ruling difficult, for ordinary folk.

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