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

Bertolt Brecht

You can’t write poems about trees when the woods are full of policemen.
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Tree Wood Writing
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
Science knows only one commandment – contribute to science.
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Account Knows Science
Come in, dear wind, and be our guest You too have neither home nor rest.
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Guest Home Wind
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
Spring is noticed, if at all By people sitting in railway trains.
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People Sitting Spring
It is not enough to demand insight and informative images of reality from the theater. Our theater must stimulate a desire for understanding, a delight in changing reality.
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Art Discovery Reality
You have to attack once the truth is too weak to defend itself.
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Defend Truth Weak
Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.
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Death Fear Life
Suppose they gave a war, and nobody came? Why then, the war would come to you!
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Politics Suppose War
Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
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Change Moving Stay Strong
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
First the grub, then the morals.
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Firsts Miscellaneous Moral
Their peace and their war Are like wind and storm. War grows from their peace.
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Peace Storm War Wind
Don’t be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.
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Anticipation Death Life
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

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