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The first time it was reported that our friends were being butchered there was a cry of horror. Then a hundred were butchered. But when a thousand were butchered and there was no end to the butchery, a blanket of silence spread.

Bertolt Brecht

It’s all right to hesitate if you then go ahead.
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Ahead Literature Travel
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
The man who laughs has simply not yet had the terrible news.
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Laughing Laughter Men
Sometimes it’s more important to be human, than to have good taste.
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Important Sometimes Taste
The headlong stream is termed violent But the river bed hemming it in is Termed violent by no one.
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Bed Rivers Violent
In the dark times Will there also be singing? Yes, there will also be singing. About the dark times.
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Dark Inspirational Singing
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
If you wan to steal money, don’t rob a bank – open one.
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Money One Open Stealing
First the pork chops, then morality
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Firsts Morality Pork
You don’t need to pray to God any more when there are storms in the sky, but you do have to be insured.
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God Sky Storm
Even hatred of vileness Distorts a mans features.
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Features Hatred
When the wound/ No longer hurts/ The scar does.
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Doe Hurt Scar
None will improve your lot If you yourself do not.
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Inspirational Life Motivational
What kind of times are they, when A talk about trees is almost a crime Because it implies silence about so many horrors?
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Kind Silence Tree
Fearful is the seductive power of goodness.
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Fearful Goodness Seductive
The mobilization order is already written out. Every day, to earn my daily bread I go to the market where lies are bought Hopefully I take up my place among the sellers.
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Eran Hopefully Mobilization Out Place Seller Written

The first time it was reported that our friends were being butchered there was a cry of horror. Then a hundred were butchered. But when a thousand were butchered and there was no end to the butchery, a blanket of silence spread.

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The first time it was reported that our friends were being butchered there was a cry of horror. Then a hundred were butchered. But when a thousand were butchered and there was no end to the butchery, a blanket of silence spread.

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