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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.

Bertolt Brecht

Great sport begins at a point where it has ceased to be healthy.
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Great Healthy Sports
When the leaders speak of peace The common folk know That war is coming When the leaders curse war
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Common Folk Lying War
Love is also like a coconut which is good while it is fresh, but you have to spit it out when the juice is gone, what’s left tastes bitter.
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Gone Love Sad Taste
Today every invention is received with a cry of triumph which soon turns into a cry of fear.
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Fear Today Triumph
People remain what they are even if their faces fall apart.
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Faces Fall People
Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon.
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Book Men Weapons
I opened the man’s skull and messed about with his brains. I saw how they patched fellows up, so as to cart them back to the Front as quickly as they could.
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Brains Cart Front Patch Skull
Alas,we who wanted kindness, could not be kind ourselves.
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Be Kind Kindness Wanted
If you fight you might lose, if you don’t you have already lost.
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Fighting Lost
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
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
Don’t be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.
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Anticipation Death Life
Erst kommt das Fressen, dann kommt die Moral.
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Anger Dies Moral
Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes.
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Happiness Hero Land
Art is not a mirror. Art is a hammer.
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Art Hammers Mirrors
The finest plans are always ruined by the littleness of those who ought to carry them out, for emperor himself can actually be nothing.
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Emperor Finest Ruined

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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