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Though the rich of this earth find no difficulty in creating misery, they can’t bear to see it.

Bertolt Brecht

Unhappiness doesn’t grow on the chest like leprosy. Poverty won’t fall off the roof like a loose tile, no; poverty and unhappiness are man’s doing.
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Fall Men Tiles
What a miserable thing life is: you’re in clover; only the clover isn’t good enough.
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Gratitude Life Sadness
We often do not know ourselves the grounds On which we act, though plain to others.
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Ground Knows Others Ourselves
It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk.
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Banker Clerk Fog
For art to be ‘unpolitical’ means only to ally itself with the ‘ruling’ group.
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Allies Art Mean
If you fight you might lose, if you don’t you have already lost.
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Fighting Lost
To those who does not know the world is on fire, I have nothing to say.
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Fire Nothing World
The human race tends to remember the abuses to which it has been subjected rather than the endearments. What’s left of kisses? Wounds, however, leave scars.
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Abuse Kissing Race
Everyone needs help from everyone.
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Collaboration Helping Needs
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
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
The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set a limit to infinite error.
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Errors Science Wisdom
General, your tank is a powerful vehicle it smashes down forests and crushes a hundred men. but it has one defect: it needs a driver.
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Crush Men Powerful
Though the rich of this earth find no difficulty in creating misery, they can’t bear to see it.
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Bears Creating Earth
Of all the works of man I like best Those which have been used. The copper pots with their dents and flattened edges The knives and forks whose wooden handles Have been worn away by many hands: such forms Seemed to me the noblest.
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Approaching Folk Hands Knives Men
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

Though the rich of this earth find no difficulty in creating misery, they can’t bear to see it.

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