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Some party hack decreed that the people had lost the government’s confidence and could only regain it with redoubled effort. If that is the case, would it not be simpler, If the government simply dissolved the people And elected another?

Bertolt Brecht

The shrill voices of those who give orders Are full of fear like the squeakings of Piglets awaiting the butcher’s knife, as their fat arses Sweat with anxiety in their office chairs…. Fear rules not only those who are ruled, but The rulers too.
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Knives Order Sweat
To those who does not know the world is on fire, I have nothing to say.
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Fire Nothing World
What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank?
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Founding Funny Money Robbing
You can’t write poems about trees when the woods are full of policemen.
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Tree Wood Writing
Science knows only one commandment – contribute to science.
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Account Knows Science
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 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
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
Alas,we who wanted kindness, could not be kind ourselves.
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Be Kind Kindness Wanted
We need a type of theatre which not only releases the feelings, insights and impulses possible within the particular historical field of human relations in which the action takes place, but employs and encourages those thoughts and feelings which help transform the field itself.
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Feelings Historical Theatre
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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Moving People Trouble
Life is short and so is money.
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Cute Life Money Short
It isn’t important to come out on top, what matters is to be the one who comes out alive.
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Acceptance Important Matters
Bank robbery is an initiative of amateurs. True professionals establish a bank.
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Bank Initiative Robbery
Unfortunate the country that needs heroes!
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Country Hero Needs

Some party hack decreed that the people had lost the government’s confidence and could only regain it with redoubled effort. If that is the case, would it not be simpler, If the government simply dissolved the people And elected another?

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