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Bertolt Brecht

Then I will tell you something. I do not believe in it. Forty years among men has consistently taught me that they are not amenable to commonsense.
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Belief Men Running
What rapture, oh, it is to know A good thing when you see it And having seen a good thing, oh, What rapture ’tis to flee it.
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Good Knows Rapture Things
Each of us is the strongest one in his or her own skin. Characteristics should take off their hats to one another, instead of spitting in each other’s faces.
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Characteristics Each Face Spitting
In my view, the great and complicated things that go on in the world cannot be adequately recognized by people who do not use every possible aid to understanding.
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Adequately Great Recognized Understanding
I opened the man’s skull and messed about with his brains. I saw how they patched fellows up, so as to cart them back to the Front as quickly as they could.
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Brains Cart Front Patch Skull
From the cradle to the coffin underwear comes first.
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Clean Coffins Literature Underwear
Spring is noticed, if at all By people sitting in railway trains.
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People Sitting Spring
Grub first, then ethics.
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Cooking First Food
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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Become Doing Evil Invisible Suffering
Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods.
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Reality Taken Writing
Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
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Change Moving Stay Strong
Who has good luck is good, Who has bad luck is bad.
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Bad Good Luck
There are times when you have to choose between being human and having good taste.
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Being Good Human Nature Taste
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
In the contradiction lies the hope.
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Contradiction Hope Lying
Would it not be simpler If the Government dissolved the people and elected another?
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Another Government People

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