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If you join the rat race — you’re in the race of rats.

Bertolt Brecht

A good soldier has his heart and soul in it. When he receives an order, he gets a hard on, and when he drives his lance through his enemy’s guts, he comes.
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Art Heart Order Philosophy
Some party hack decreed that the people had lost the government’s confidence and could only regain it with redoubled effort. If that is the case, would it not be simpler, If the government simply dissolved the people And elected another?
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Government Party People
There are men who struggle for a day and they are good. There are men who struggle for a year and they are better. There are men who struggle many years, and they are better still. But there are those who struggle all their lives: These are the indispensable ones.
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Men Struggle Years
The fate of man is man.
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Fate Men Trust
Who fights may lose, but who does not fight has lost already.
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Already Fighting May
Who struggles can fail. Who doesn’t struggle has already failed!
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Diversity Justice Struggle
When the praying does no good, insurance does help.
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Helping Insurance Praying
Come in, dear wind, and be our guest You too have neither home nor rest.
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Guest Home Wind
Grub first, then ethics.
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Cooking First Food
There are some with brains and some without. It makes for a better division of labour.
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Brain Division Labor
People remain what they are even if their faces fall apart.
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Faces Fall People
First feed the face, then talk right and wrong.
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Faces Firsts Talk
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
Oh why do we not say the important things, it would be so easy, and we are damned because we do not.
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Dammed Easy Important
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
To those who does not know the world is on fire, I have nothing to say.
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Fire Nothing World

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