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When the house of a great one collapses Many little ones are slain.

Bertolt Brecht

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
Erst kommt das Fressen, dann kommt die Moral.
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Anger Dies Moral
A man who sees another man on the street corner with only a stump for an arm will be so shocked the first time he’ll give him sixpence. But the second time it’ll only be a three penny bit. And if he sees him a third time, he’ll have him cold-bloodedly handed over to the police.
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Giving Men Police Six Street Time
The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn When teachers themselves are taught to learn.
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Crazy Literature Teacher
I am a playwright. I show What I have seen. In the man markets I have seen how men are traded. That I show, I, the playwright.
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Men Show Traded
If you wan to steal money, don’t rob a bank – open one.
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Money One Open Stealing
It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk.
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Banker Clerk Fog
The righteous one has no sense of humor.
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Humor One Righteous Sense
Alas,we who wanted kindness, could not be kind ourselves.
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Be Kind Kindness Wanted
With drooping shoulders The majority sit hunched, their foreheads furrowed like Stony ground that has been repeatedly ploughed-up to no purpose.
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Majority Purpose Shoulders
What’s a joy to the one is a nightmare to the other.
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Joy Nightmare One Other
What kind of times are they, when A talk about trees is almost a crime Because it implies silence about so many horrors?
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Kind Silence Tree
No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.
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Demand Literature Long
What’s breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank?
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Banking Breaking Literature Silence
Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.
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Death Fear Life
A good soldier has his heart and soul in it. When he receives an order, he gets a hard on, and when he drives his lance through his enemy’s guts, he comes.
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Art Heart Order Philosophy

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