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BERTOLT BRECHTThe 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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Art and science coincide insofar as both aim to improve the lives of men and women.
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Who has good luck is good, Who has bad luck is bad.
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It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk.
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When the wound/ No longer hurts/ The scar does.
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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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War is like love, it always finds a way.
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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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He who is still laughing is he who hasn’t heard the terrible news.
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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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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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Of all the works of man I like best Those which have been used. The copper pots with their dents and flattened edges The knives and forks whose wooden handles Have been worn away by many hands: such forms Seemed to me the noblest.
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In the contradiction lies the hope.
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To those who does not know the world is on fire, I have nothing to say.
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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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I’m in good form, taking no interest in things, neglecting clothes, meals, company, and feeling calm and stable as I write.
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