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When the leaders speak of peace, the common folk know war is coming.

Bertolt Brecht

Would it not be simpler If the Government dissolved the people and elected another?
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Another Government People
Show them the red tail of a comet, fill them with black terror, and they will all come running out of their houses and break their legs. But tell them one sensible proposition, and support it with seven reasons, and they will simply laugh in your face.
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Black Proposition Running Sensible Show Support
The right to happiness is fundamental; men live so little time and die alone.
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Alone Happiness Joy Men
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
…it is simplicity that is difficult to make.
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Design Difficult Simplicity Software
Writers can’t write as fast as governments make wars; because to write demands thinking.
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Thinking War Writing
Art and science coincide insofar as both aim to improve the lives of men and women.
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Art Fashion Mean
When you name yourself, you always name another.
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Always Another Names
If you wan to steal money, don’t rob a bank – open one.
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Money One Open Stealing
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
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
You can make a fresh start with your final breath.
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Breaths Finals Fresh Start
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
Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must also change. Nothing comes from nothing; the new comes from the old, but that is why it is new.
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Change Nothing Reality Representation
The rain Never falls upwards. When the wound Stops hurting What hurts is The scar.
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Fall Hurt Rain
You don’t need to pray to God any more when there are storms in the sky, but you do have to be insured.
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God Sky Storm

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