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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

If you fight you might lose, if you don’t you have already lost.
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Fighting Lost
Those who take the most from the table, teach contentment. Those for whom the taxes are destined, demand sacrifice. Those who eat their fill, speak to the hungry, of wonderful times to come. Those who lead the country into the abyss, call ruling difficult, for ordinary folk.
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Contentment Country Sacrifice
First the pork chops, then morality
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Firsts Morality Pork
The storm that bends the birch trees Is held to be violent But how about the storm That bends the backs of the roadworkers?
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Storm Tree Violent
The first time it was reported that our friends were being butchered there was a cry of horror. Then a hundred were butchered. But when a thousand were butchered and there was no end to the butchery, a blanket of silence spread.
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Fall Rain Summer
He who speaks of enemies , himself is the enemy.
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Enemy Himself Speak
The human race tends to remember the abuses to which it has been subjected rather than the endearments. What’s left of kisses? Wounds, however, leave scars.
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Abuse Kissing Race
General, your tank is a powerful vehicle it smashes down forests and crushes a hundred men. but it has one defect: it needs a driver.
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Crush Men Powerful
What’s a joy to the one is a nightmare to the other.
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Joy Nightmare One Other
It was never decreed that a god mustn’t pay hotel bills.
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Bills Hotel Pay
Why be a man when you can be a success?
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Inspirational Life Motivational
The mobilization order is already written out. Every day, to earn my daily bread I go to the market where lies are bought Hopefully I take up my place among the sellers.
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Eran Hopefully Mobilization Out Place Seller Written
There are times when you have to choose between being human and having good taste.
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Being Good Human Nature Taste
Spring is noticed, if at all By people sitting in railway trains.
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People Sitting Spring
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
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

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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