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What’s breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank?

Bertolt Brecht

Firebugs dragging their gasoline bottles are approaching the Academy of Arts, with a grin. And so, instead of embracing them, let us demand the freedom of the elbow to knock the bottles out of their filthy hands.
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Art Embrace Hands War
Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes.
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Happiness Hero Land
People are too durable, that’s their main trouble. They can do too much to themselves, they last too long.
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Long People Silly
The more innocent they are, the more they deserve to be shot.
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Deserve Innocent Shots
It’s never too late for those whose time has come.
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Come Late never Too
Don’t accept the habitual as a natural thing. In times of disorder, of organized confusion, of de-humanized humanity, nothing should seem natural. Nothing should seem impossible to change.
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Confusion Humanity Impossible
There must always be some who are brighter and some who are stupider, the latter make up for it by being better workers.
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Latter Stupidity Workers
Here today we huddle tight As the darkest heathens might The snow falls chilly on our skin The snow is forcing its way in. Hush, snow, come in with us to dwell: We were thrown out by Heaven as well.
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Fall Heaven Snow
What rapture, oh, it is to know A good thing when you see it And having seen a good thing, oh, What rapture ’tis to flee it.
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Good Knows Rapture Things
In the contradiction lies the hope.
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Contradiction Hope Lying
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
Young Alexander conquered India. He alone? Caesar beat the Gauls. Was there not even a cook in his army? Philip of Spain wept as his fleet was sunk and destroyed. Were there no other tears? Frederick the Great triumphed in the Seven Years War. Who Triumphed with him?
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Army War Years
Grub first, then ethics.
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Cooking First Food
It was never decreed that a god mustn’t pay hotel bills.
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Bills Hotel Pay
The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn When teachers themselves are taught to learn.
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Crazy Literature Teacher
What kind of times are they, when A talk about trees is almost a crime Because it implies silence about so many horrors?
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Kind Silence Tree

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