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You may proclaim, good sirs, your fine philosophy But till you feed us, right and wrong can wait!

Bertolt Brecht

The rain Never falls upwards. When the wound Stops hurting What hurts is The scar.
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Fall Hurt Rain
Poverty makes you wise but it’s a curse.
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Curse Poverty Wise
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
With drooping shoulders The majority sit hunched, their foreheads furrowed like Stony ground that has been repeatedly ploughed-up to no purpose.
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Majority Purpose Shoulders
The headlong stream is termed violent But the river bed hemming it in is Termed violent by no one.
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Bed Rivers Violent
The right to happiness is fundamental; men live so little time and die alone.
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Alone Happiness Joy Men
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
First feed the face, then talk right and wrong.
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Faces Firsts Talk
Temptation to behave is terrible.
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Literature Temptation Terrible
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
When something seems ‘the most obvious thing in the world’ it means that any attempt to understand the world has been given up.
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Mean World
He who speaks of enemies , himself is the enemy.
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Enemy Himself Speak
I was called up in the war and sent to a hospital. I dressed wounds, applied iodine, gave enemas, did blood transfusions. If the doctor ordered: “Brecht, amputate a leg!”, I would reply, “Certainly, Your Excellency!”, and cut off the leg. If I was told, “Perform a trepanning!”
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Cutting Men Transfusion 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
For the task assigned them Men aren’t smart enough or sly Any rogue can blind them With a clever lie.
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Clever Lying Smart
If you fight you might lose, if you don’t you have already lost.
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Fighting Lost

You may proclaim, good sirs, your fine philosophy But till you feed us, right and wrong can wait!

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