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We often do not know ourselves the grounds On which we act, though plain to others.

Bertolt Brecht

To those who does not know the world is on fire, I have nothing to say.
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Fire Nothing World
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
For art to be ‘unpolitical’ means only to ally itself with the ‘ruling’ group.
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Allies Art Mean
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
There must always be some who are brighter and some who are stupider, the latter make up for it by being better workers.
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Latter Stupidity Workers
Come in, dear wind, and be our guest You too have neither home nor rest.
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Guest Home Wind
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
Schoenberg is too melodious for me, too sweet.
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Musical Schoenberg Sweet
If you join the rat race — you’re in the race of rats.
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Join Race Rat
To live means to finesse the processes to which one is subjugated.
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Finesse Mean Process
Who built the seven gates of Thebes? In the books are listed the names of kings. Did the kings heave up the building blocks?
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Block Book Kings
You can’t write poems about trees when the woods are full of policemen.
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Tree Wood Writing
Spring is noticed, if at all By people sitting in railway trains.
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People Sitting Spring
Some party hack decreed that the people had lost the government’s confidence and could only regain it with redoubled effort. If that is the case, would it not be simpler, If the government simply dissolved the people And elected another?
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Government Party People
Great sport begins at a point where it has ceased to be healthy.
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Great Healthy Sports
What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?
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Cheesy Funny Gone Good Morning

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