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Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.

Bertolt Brecht

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
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
Erst kommt das Fressen, dann kommt die Moral.
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Anger Dies Moral
The man who laughs has simply not yet had the terrible news.
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Laughing Laughter Men
You may proclaim, good sirs, your fine philosophy But till you feed us, right and wrong can wait!
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May Philosophy Waiting
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
You have to attack once the truth is too weak to defend itself.
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Defend Truth Weak
People who understand everything get no stories.
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People Stories Understand
Why be a man when you can be a success?
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Inspirational Life Motivational
General, your bomber is powerful. It flies faster than a storm and carries more than an elephant. But it has one defect: It needs a mechanic. General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.
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Bother Carries Defect Faster General Man Storm
I opened the man’s skull and messed about with his brains. I saw how they patched fellows up, so as to cart them back to the Front as quickly as they could.
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Brains Cart Front Patch Skull
The war which is coming Is not the first one. There were Other wars before it. When the last one came to an end There were conquerors and conquered. Among the conquered the common people Starved. Among the conquerors The common people starved too.
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Lasts People War
When the leaders speak of peace The common folk know That war is coming When the leaders curse war
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Common Folk Lying War
But something’s missing.
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Lot Missing Something
In my view, the great and complicated things that go on in the world cannot be adequately recognized by people who do not use every possible aid to understanding.
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Adequately Great Recognized Understanding
There are some with brains and some without. It makes for a better division of labour.
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Brain Division Labor

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