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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.

Bertolt Brecht

General, your tank is a powerful vehicle It smashes down forests and crushes a hundred men. But it has one defect: It needs a driver.
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Crush Men Powerful
Who fights may lose, but who does not fight has lost already.
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Already Fighting May
Pleasures First look from morning’s window The rediscovered book Fascinated faces Snow, the change of the seasons
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Book Change Dog Morning
Bank robbery is an initiative of amateurs. True professionals establish a bank.
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Bank Initiative Robbery
Who built the seven gates of Thebes? In the books are listed the names of kings. Did the kings heave up the building blocks?
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Block Book Kings
Something ignoble, loathsome, undignified attends all associations between people and has been transferred to all objects, dwelling, tools, even the landscape itself.
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Dwelling Object People Tool
First feed the face, then talk right and wrong.
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Faces Firsts Talk
A theater without beer is just a museum
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Beer Museums Theater
Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must change.
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Order Reality Representation
Who has good luck is good, Who has bad luck is bad.
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Bad Good Luck
Fearful is the seductive power of goodness.
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Fearful Goodness Seductive
The rain Never falls upwards. When the wound Stops hurting What hurts is The scar.
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Fall Hurt Rain
The fanatics for progress often have too little appreciation of the existing.
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Appreciation Littles Progress
Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.
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Mistake Moving Wisdom
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
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

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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