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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

Fearful is the seductive power of goodness.
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Fearful Goodness Seductive
Schoenberg is too melodious for me, too sweet.
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Musical Schoenberg Sweet
Who fights may lose, but who does not fight has lost already.
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Already Fighting May
Impact lies in the vicinity of mistakes.
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Impact Lying Mistakes
The rain Never falls upwards. When the wound Stops hurting What hurts is The scar.
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Fall Hurt Rain
Sin is what is new, strong, surprising, strange. The theatre must take an interest in sin if the young are to be able to go there.
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Able Strong Theatre
What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?
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Cheesy Funny Gone Good Morning
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
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
For once you must try not to shirk the facts: mankind is kept alive by bestial acts.
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Alive Sex Trying
Grub first, then ethics.
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Cooking First Food
Terrible is the temptation to be good.
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Be Good Temptation Terrible
Go make yourself a plan And be a shining light. Then make yourself a second plan, For neither will come right.
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Light Planning Shining
Oh! Moon of Alabama We now must say good-bye We’ve lost our good old mama And must have whiskey Oh, you know why!
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Alabama Bye Moon
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
One must live well to know what living is.
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Knows Live Must Well

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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