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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.

Bertolt Brecht

All the gang of those who rule us Hope our quarrels never stop Helping them to split and fool us So they can remain on top.
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Fool Government Splits
Don’t accept the habitual as a natural thing. In times of disorder, of organized confusion, of de-humanized humanity, nothing should seem natural. Nothing should seem impossible to change.
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Confusion Humanity Impossible
It’s never too late for those whose time has come.
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Come Late never Too
Unfortunate the country that needs heroes!
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Country Hero Needs
Impact lies in the vicinity of mistakes.
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Impact Lying Mistakes
There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.
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Leadership Numbers Two
No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.
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Demand Literature Long
Our audience must experience not only the ways to free Prometheus, but be schooled in the very desire to free him. Theater must teach all the pleasures and joys of discovery, all the feelings of triumph associated with liberation.
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Audience Discovery Experience Joy Pleasure Schooled
What they could do with ’round here is a good war. What else can you expect with peace running wild all over the place? You know what the trouble with peace is? No organization.
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Peace Running War
Whenever there are great virtues, it’s a sure sign something’s wrong.
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Great Something Virtue Wrong
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
Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.
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Death Fear Life
From the cradle to the coffin underwear comes first.
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Clean Coffins Literature Underwear
It isn’t important to come out on top, what matters is to be the one who comes out alive.
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Acceptance Important Matters
To those who does not know the world is on fire, I have nothing to say.
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Fire Nothing World
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

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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