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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

A good soldier has his heart and soul in it. When he receives an order, he gets a hard on, and when he drives his lance through his enemy’s guts, he comes.
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Art Heart Order Philosophy
When evil-doing comes like falling rain, nobody calls out “stop!” When crimes begin to pile up they become invisible. When sufferings become unendurable the cries are no longer heard. The cries, too, fall like rain in summer.
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Become Doing Evil Invisible Suffering
We attacked a foreign people and treated them like rebels. As you know, it’s all right to treat barbarians barbarically. It’s the desire to be barbaric that makes governments call their enemies barbarians.
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Government People War
Right is its own defense.
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Defense Literature Own Right
Even the most blockheaded bureaucrat, provided he loves peace, is a greater lover of the arts than any so-called art-lover who loves the arts of war.
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Even Greater Love Lover Peace Provided War
If art reflects life, it does so with special mirrors.
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Art Mirrors Special
Pleasures First look from morning’s window The rediscovered book Fascinated faces Snow, the change of the seasons
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Book Change Dog Morning
The rain Never falls upwards. When the wound Stops hurting What hurts is The scar.
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Fall Hurt Rain
What a miserable thing life is: you’re in clover; only the clover isn’t good enough.
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Gratitude Life Sadness
What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank?
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Founding Funny Money Robbing
Who has good luck is good, Who has bad luck is bad.
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Bad Good Luck
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
Those who have had no share in the good fortunes of the mighty Often have a share in their misfortunes.
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Fortune Good Mighty Share
When crimes begin to pile up they become invisible. When sufferings become unendurable the cries are no longer heard. The cries, too, fall like rain in summer.
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Fall Rain Summer
In the contradiction lies the hope.
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Contradiction Hope Lying
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

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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