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Who built the seven gates of Thebes? In the books are listed the names of kings. Did the kings heave up the building blocks?

Bertolt Brecht

Nowadays, anyone who wishes to combat lies and ignorance and to write the truth must overcome at least five difficulties.
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Lying Running Writing
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
Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.
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Mistake Moving Wisdom
Who has good luck is good, Who has bad luck is bad.
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Bad Good Luck
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
Unhappiness doesn’t grow on the chest like leprosy. Poverty won’t fall off the roof like a loose tile, no; poverty and unhappiness are man’s doing.
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Fall Men Tiles
Whenever there are great virtues, it’s a sure sign something’s wrong.
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Great Something Virtue Wrong
The newspaper The dog Dialectics Showering, swimming Old music Comfortable shoes Comprehension New music Writing, planting Traveling Singing Being friendly
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Comfortable Dog Newspaper Planting Shoe Singing
The mill wheel turns, it turns forever, though what is uppermost remains not so.
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Forever Mills Wheels
Though the rich of this earth find no difficulty in creating misery, they can’t bear to see it.
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Bears Creating Earth
Grub first, then ethics.
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Cooking First Food
The fate of man is man.
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Fate Men Trust
Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.
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Death Fear Life
From the start it has been the theatre’s business to entertain people … it needs no other passport than fun.
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Fun People Theatre
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
You may proclaim, good sirs, your fine philosophy But till you feed us, right and wrong can wait!
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May Philosophy Waiting

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