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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 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
Their peace and their war Are like wind and storm. War grows from their peace.
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Peace Storm War Wind
In my view, the great and complicated things that go on in the world cannot be adequately recognized by people who do not use every possible aid to understanding.
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Adequately Great Recognized Understanding
Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.
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Art Mirror Reality
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
Come in, dear wind, and be our guest You too have neither home nor rest.
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Guest Home Wind
First feed the face, then talk right and wrong.
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Faces Firsts Talk
Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must change.
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Order Reality Representation
Terrible is the temptation to be good.
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Be Good Temptation Terrible
Temptation to behave is terrible.
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Literature Temptation Terrible
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
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
There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.
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Leadership Numbers Two
There are some with brains and some without. It makes for a better division of labour.
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Brain Division Labor
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
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 fanatics for progress often have too little appreciation of the existing.
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Appreciation Littles Progress
Would it not be simpler If the Government dissolved the people and elected another?
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Another Government People
War is like love, it always finds a way.
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Life Love Military
If you don’t have fun, you don’t have a show.
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Fun Inspirational Shows
Love is the wish to give, not to receive.
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Giving Love Wish
Oh why do we not say the important things, it would be so easy, and we are damned because we do not.
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Dammed Easy Important
It’s all right to hesitate if you then go ahead.
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Ahead Literature Travel
For time flows on, and if it did not, it would be a bad prospect for those who do not sit at golden tables.
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Order Reality Tables
What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank?
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Founding Funny Money Robbing
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
Don’t be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.
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Anticipation Death Life

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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