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There are some with brains and some without. It makes for a better division of labour.

Bertolt Brecht

It’s never too late for those whose time has come.
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Come Late never Too
Those who have had no share in the good fortunes of the mighty Often have a share in their misfortunes.
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Fortune Good Mighty Share
The fanatics for progress often have too little appreciation of the existing.
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Appreciation Littles Progress
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
In the dark times Will there also be singing? Yes, there will also be singing. About the dark times.
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Dark Inspirational Singing
The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn When teachers themselves are taught to learn.
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Crazy Literature Teacher
Art is not a mirror. Art is a hammer.
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Art Hammers Mirrors
The headlong stream is termed violent But the river bed hemming it in is Termed violent by no one.
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Bed Rivers Violent
The mobilization order is already written out. Every day, to earn my daily bread I go to the market where lies are bought Hopefully I take up my place among the sellers.
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Eran Hopefully Mobilization Out Place Seller Written
Realist writing, of which history offers many widely varying examples, is likewise conditioned by the question of how, when and for what class it is made use of.
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Condition Example Made Realist
Don’t accept the habitual as a natural thing. In times of disorder, of organized confusion, of de-humanized humanity, nothing should seem natural. Nothing should seem impossible to change.
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Confusion Humanity Impossible
Everyone needs help from everyone.
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Collaboration Helping Needs
Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon.
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Book Men Weapons
I Who live in Los Angeles and not in London Find, on thinking about Hell, that it must be Still more like Los Angeles.
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About Country Live Place
Spring is noticed, if at all By people sitting in railway trains.
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People Sitting Spring
Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.
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Art Mirror Reality

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