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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

Go make yourself a plan And be a shining light. Then make yourself a second plan, For neither will come right.
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Light Planning Shining
The defeats and victories of the fellows at the top aren’t always defeats and victories for the fellows at the bottom.
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Defeat Sunset Victory
Bank robbery is an initiative of amateurs. True professionals establish a bank.
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Bank Initiative Robbery
One can describe the world of today to the people of today only if one describes it as capable of alteration.
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People Today World
I don’t like where I’m going and I don’t like where I’ve been. Why am I in a hurry?
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Going Hurry Like
You can’t write poems about trees when the woods are full of policemen.
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Tree Wood Writing
Poverty makes you wise but it’s a curse.
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Curse Poverty Wise
Let nothing be called natural In an age of bloody confusion, Ordered disorder, planned caprice, And dehumanized humanity, lest all things Be held unalterable!
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Confusion Humanity Nature
Today every invention is received with a cry of triumph which soon turns into a cry of fear.
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Fear Today Triumph
It’s never too late for those whose time has come.
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Come Late never Too
Those who have had no share in the good fortunes of the mighty Often have a share in their misfortunes.
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Fortune Good Mighty Share
It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk.
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Banker Clerk Fog
The fanatics for progress often have too little appreciation of the existing.
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Appreciation Littles Progress
The shrill voices of those who give orders Are full of fear like the squeakings of Piglets awaiting the butcher’s knife, as their fat arses Sweat with anxiety in their office chairs…. Fear rules not only those who are ruled, but The rulers too.
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Knives Order Sweat
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 world of knowledge takes a crazy turn When teachers themselves are taught to learn.
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Crazy Literature Teacher

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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