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Go make yourself a plan And be a shining light. Then make yourself a second plan, For neither will come right.

Bertolt Brecht

The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn When teachers themselves are taught to learn.
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Crazy Literature Teacher
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
I am a playwright. I show What I have seen. In the man markets I have seen how men are traded. That I show, I, the playwright.
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Men Show Traded
Boy Meets Girl, So What?
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Boys Broken Girl Heart
Each of us is the strongest one in his or her own skin. Characteristics should take off their hats to one another, instead of spitting in each other’s faces.
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Characteristics Each Face Spitting
Those against politics are in favor of the politics inflicted upon them.
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Democracy Favors Freedom
Come in, dear wind, and be our guest You too have neither home nor rest.
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Guest Home Wind
For the task assigned them Men aren’t smart enough or sly Any rogue can blind them With a clever lie.
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Clever Lying Smart
In the contradiction lies the hope.
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Contradiction Hope Lying
Writers can’t write as fast as governments make wars; because to write demands thinking.
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Thinking War Writing
Something ignoble, loathsome, undignified attends all associations between people and has been transferred to all objects, dwelling, tools, even the landscape itself.
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Dwelling Object People Tool
There are some with brains and some without. It makes for a better division of labour.
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Brain Division Labor
The right to happiness is fundamental; men live so little time and die alone.
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Alone Happiness Joy Men
Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.
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Poverty Wells Wise
Right is its own defense.
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Defense Literature Own Right
The war which is coming Is not the first one. There were Other wars before it. When the last one came to an end There were conquerors and conquered. Among the conquered the common people Starved. Among the conquerors The common people starved too.
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Lasts People War

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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