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In the dark times Will there also be singing? Yes, there will also be singing. About the dark times.

Bertolt Brecht

Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.
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Art Mirror Reality
None will improve your lot If you yourself do not.
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Inspirational Life Motivational
What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank?
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Founding Funny Money Robbing
We attacked a foreign people and treated them like rebels. As you know, it’s all right to treat barbarians barbarically. It’s the desire to be barbaric that makes governments call their enemies barbarians.
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Government People War
Unfortunate the country that needs heroes!
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Country Hero Needs
Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must also change. Nothing comes from nothing; the new comes from the old, but that is why it is new.
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Change Nothing Reality Representation
Each of us is the strongest one in his or her own skin. Characteristics should take off their hats to one another, instead of spitting in each other’s faces.
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Characteristics Each Face Spitting
The shrill voices of those who give orders Are full of fear like the squeakings of Piglets awaiting the butcher’s knife, as their fat arses Sweat with anxiety in their office chairs…. Fear rules not only those who are ruled, but The rulers too.
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Knives Order Sweat
Things take indeed a wondrous turn When learned men do stoop to learn.
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Men Scholarship Turns
Recently my fingers have developed a prejudice against comparatives. They all follow this pattern: a squirrel is smaller than a tree; a bird is more musical than a tree.
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Bird Perspective Squirrels
General, your bomber is powerful. It flies faster than a storm and carries more than an elephant. But it has one defect: It needs a mechanic. General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.
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Bother Carries Defect Faster General Man Storm
The defeats and victories of the fellows at the top aren’t always defeats and victories for the fellows at the bottom.
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Defeat Sunset Victory
Temptation to behave is terrible.
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Literature Temptation Terrible
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
The fanatics for progress often have too little appreciation of the existing.
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Appreciation Littles Progress
Great sport begins at a point where it has ceased to be healthy.
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Great Healthy Sports

In the dark times Will there also be singing? Yes, there will also be singing. About the dark times.

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