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There are a few things that’ll move people to pity, a few, but the trouble is, when they’ve been used several times, they no longer work.

Bertolt Brecht

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
From the cradle to the coffin underwear comes first.
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Clean Coffins Literature Underwear
When something seems ‘the most obvious thing in the world’ it means that any attempt to understand the world has been given up.
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Mean World
If art reflects life, it does so with special mirrors.
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Art Mirrors Special
Young Alexander conquered India. He alone? Caesar beat the Gauls. Was there not even a cook in his army? Philip of Spain wept as his fleet was sunk and destroyed. Were there no other tears? Frederick the Great triumphed in the Seven Years War. Who Triumphed with him?
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Army War Years
When the leaders speak of peace, the common folk know war is coming.
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Common Folk Leader War
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
People remain what they are even if their faces fall apart.
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Faces Fall People
Only bad generals need heroes.
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General Hero Needs
Art is not a mirror. Art is a hammer.
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Art Hammers Mirrors
For art to be ‘unpolitical’ means only to ally itself with the ‘ruling’ group.
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Allies Art Mean
Never believe on faith, see for yourself! What you yourself don’t learn you don’t know.
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Believe Knows Learn
Poverty makes you wise but it’s a curse.
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Curse Poverty Wise
Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods.
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Reality Taken Writing
First the pork chops, then morality
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Firsts Morality Pork
Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon.
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Book Men Weapons

There are a few things that’ll move people to pity, a few, but the trouble is, when they’ve been used several times, they no longer work.

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