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The headlong stream is termed violent But the river bed hemming it in is Termed violent by no one.

Bertolt Brecht

What rapture, oh, it is to know A good thing when you see it And having seen a good thing, oh, What rapture ’tis to flee it.
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Good Knows Rapture Things
Everyone needs help from everyone.
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Collaboration Helping Needs
All the gang of those who rule us Hope our quarrels never stop Helping them to split and fool us So they can remain on top.
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Fool Government Splits
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
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
Life is short and so is money.
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Cute Life Money Short
When the house of a great one collapses Many little ones are slain.
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Collapse House Littles
Art and science coincide insofar as both aim to improve the lives of men and women.
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Art Fashion Mean
If you join the rat race — you’re in the race of rats.
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Join Race Rat
One forgets too easily the difference between a man and his image, and that there is none between the sound of his voice on the screen and in real life.
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Men Real Screen Voice
Whenever there are great virtues, it’s a sure sign something’s wrong.
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Great Something Virtue Wrong
The fanatics for progress often have too little appreciation of the existing.
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Appreciation Littles Progress
Let nothing be called natural In an age of bloody confusion, Ordered disorder, planned caprice, And dehumanized humanity, lest all things Be held unalterable!
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Confusion Humanity Nature
I was called up in the war and sent to a hospital. I dressed wounds, applied iodine, gave enemas, did blood transfusions. If the doctor ordered: “Brecht, amputate a leg!”, I would reply, “Certainly, Your Excellency!”, and cut off the leg. If I was told, “Perform a trepanning!”
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Cutting Men Transfusion War
You can’t write poems about trees when the woods are full of policemen.
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Tree Wood Writing
Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.
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Mistake Moving Wisdom

The headlong stream is termed violent But the river bed hemming it in is Termed violent by no one.

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