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

Bertolt Brecht

To live means to finesse the processes to which one is subjugated.
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Finesse Mean Process
He who is still laughing is he who hasn’t heard the terrible news.
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Laughing News Terrible
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
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
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
Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon.
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Book Men Weapons
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
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
I’m in good form, taking no interest in things, neglecting clothes, meals, company, and feeling calm and stable as I write.
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Clothes Feelings Writing
No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.
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Demand Literature Long
The finest plans are always ruined by the littleness of those who ought to carry them out, for emperor himself can actually be nothing.
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Emperor Finest Ruined
For what’s the use of talking with a man who has a disease and thinks about the stars?
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Men Stars Thinking
Bank robbery is an initiative of amateurs. True professionals establish a bank.
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Bank Initiative Robbery
In the contradiction lies the hope.
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Contradiction Hope Lying
The newspaper The dog Dialectics Showering, swimming Old music Comfortable shoes Comprehension New music Writing, planting Traveling Singing Being friendly
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Comfortable Dog Newspaper Planting Shoe Singing
Would it not be simpler If the Government dissolved the people and elected another?
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Another Government People

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

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