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Bertolt Brecht

Let nothing be called natural In an age of bloody confusion, Ordered disorder, planned caprice, And dehumanized humanity, lest all things Be held unalterable!
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Confusion Humanity Nature
Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.
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Death Fear Life
He who fights, can lose. He who doesn’t fight, has already lost.
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Fighting Loses Lost
General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.
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Defect Men Thinking
Poverty makes you wise but it’s a curse.
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Curse Poverty Wise
I am a playwright. I show What I have seen. In the man markets I have seen how men are traded. That I show, I, the playwright.
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Men Show Traded
Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
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Change Moving Stay Strong
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
Realist writing, of which history offers many widely varying examples, is likewise conditioned by the question of how, when and for what class it is made use of.
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Condition Example Made Realist
Some party hack decreed that the people had lost the government’s confidence and could only regain it with redoubled effort. If that is the case, would it not be simpler, If the government simply dissolved the people And elected another?
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Government Party People
Even hatred of vileness Distorts a mans features.
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Features Hatred
The rain Never falls upwards. When the wound Stops hurting What hurts is The scar.
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Fall Hurt Rain
Everyone needs help from everyone.
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Collaboration Helping Needs
Those against politics are in favor of the politics inflicted upon them.
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Democracy Favors Freedom
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
When the leaders speak of peace The common folk know That war is coming When the leaders curse war
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Common Folk Lying War

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