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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

Who fights may lose, but who does not fight has lost already.
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Already Fighting May
You may proclaim, good sirs, your fine philosophy But till you feed us, right and wrong can wait!
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May Philosophy Waiting
What’s a joy to the one is a nightmare to the other.
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Joy Nightmare One Other
Bank robbery is an initiative of amateurs. True professionals establish a bank.
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Bank Initiative Robbery
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
No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.
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Demand Literature Long
But something’s missing.
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Lot Missing Something
Grub first, then ethics.
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Cooking First Food
There are some with brains and some without. It makes for a better division of labour.
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Brain Division Labor
Who has good luck is good, Who has bad luck is bad.
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Bad Good Luck
On thinking about Hell, I gather My brother Shelley found it was a place Much like the city of London.
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Brother Cities Thinking
When the house of a great one collapses Many little ones are slain.
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Collapse House Littles
First the pork chops, then morality
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Firsts Morality Pork
To those who does not know the world is on fire, I have nothing to say.
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Fire Nothing World
Everyone needs help from everyone.
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Collaboration Helping Needs
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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Approaching Folk Hands Knives Men
People are too durable, that’s their main trouble. They can do too much to themselves, they last too long.
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Long People Silly
I don’t like where I’m going and I don’t like where I’ve been. Why am I in a hurry?
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Going Hurry Like
If you wan to steal money, don’t rob a bank – open one.
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Money One Open Stealing
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
Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.
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Death Fear Life
There must always be some who are brighter and some who are stupider, the latter make up for it by being better workers.
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Latter Stupidity Workers
To live means to finesse the processes to which one is subjugated.
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Finesse Mean Process
All artforms are in the service of the greatest of all arts: the art of living.
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Art Living Service
When you name yourself, you always name another.
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Always Another Names
Love is also like a coconut which is good while it is fresh, but you have to spit it out when the juice is gone, what’s left tastes bitter.
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Gone Love Sad Taste
Art is not a mirror. Art is a hammer.
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Art Hammers Mirrors

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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