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For once you must try not to shirk the facts: mankind is kept alive by bestial acts.

Bertolt Brecht

There are some with brains and some without. It makes for a better division of labour.
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Brain Division Labor
What’s a joy to the one is a nightmare to the other.
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Joy Nightmare One Other
People who understand everything get no stories.
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People Stories Understand
Art and science work in quite different ways: agreed. But, bad as it may sound, I have to admit that I cannot get along as an artist without the use of one or two sciences. …
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Art Science Views Work
Suppose they gave a war, and nobody came? Why then, the war would come to you!
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Politics Suppose War
Boy Meets Girl, So What?
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Boys Broken Girl Heart
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
The mobilization order is already written out. Every day, to earn my daily bread I go to the market where lies are bought Hopefully I take up my place among the sellers.
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Eran Hopefully Mobilization Out Place Seller Written
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
First feed the face, then talk right and wrong.
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Faces Firsts Talk
Life is short and so is money.
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Cute Life Money Short
The fanatics for progress often have too little appreciation of the existing.
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Appreciation Littles Progress
You can make a fresh start with your final breath.
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Breaths Finals Fresh Start
We attacked a foreign people and treated them like rebels. As you know, it’s all right to treat barbarians barbarically. It’s the desire to be barbaric that makes governments call their enemies barbarians.
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Government People War
He who is still laughing is he who hasn’t heard the terrible news.
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Laughing News Terrible
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

For once you must try not to shirk the facts: mankind is kept alive by bestial acts.

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