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

Bertolt Brecht

The more innocent they are, the more they deserve to be shot.
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Deserve Innocent Shots
Spring is noticed, if at all By people sitting in railway trains.
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People Sitting Spring
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
Those against politics are in favor of the politics inflicted upon them.
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Democracy Favors Freedom
Schoenberg is too melodious for me, too sweet.
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Musical Schoenberg Sweet
Who fights may lose, but who does not fight has lost already.
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Already Fighting May
Whenever there are great virtues, it’s a sure sign something’s wrong.
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Great Something Virtue Wrong
Art and science coincide insofar as both aim to improve the lives of men and women.
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Art Fashion Mean
For once you must try not to shirk the facts: mankind is kept alive by bestial acts.
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Alive Sex Trying
I Who live in Los Angeles and not in London Find, on thinking about Hell, that it must be Still more like Los Angeles.
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About Country Live Place
Grub first, then ethics.
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Cooking First Food
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
Writers can’t write as fast as governments make wars; because to write demands thinking.
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Thinking War Writing
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 finest plans have always been spoiled by the littleness of them that should carry them out. Even emperors can’t do it all by themselves.
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Finest Spoil
Unfortunate the country that needs heroes!
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Country Hero Needs

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