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I don’t like where I’m going and I don’t like where I’ve been. Why am I in a hurry?

Bertolt Brecht

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
The first time it was reported that our friends were being butchered there was a cry of horror. Then a hundred were butchered. But when a thousand were butchered and there was no end to the butchery, a blanket of silence spread.
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Fall Rain Summer
Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.
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Mistake Moving Wisdom
Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must also change. Nothing comes from nothing; the new comes from the old, but that is why it is new.
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Change Nothing Reality Representation
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
It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk.
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Banker Clerk Fog
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
He who speaks of enemies , himself is the enemy.
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Enemy Himself Speak
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
Things take indeed a wondrous turn When learned men do stoop to learn.
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Men Scholarship Turns
He who is still laughing is he who hasn’t heard the terrible news.
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Laughing News Terrible
Erst kommt das Fressen, dann kommt die Moral.
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Anger Dies Moral
Firebugs dragging their gasoline bottles are approaching the Academy of Arts, with a grin. And so, instead of embracing them, let us demand the freedom of the elbow to knock the bottles out of their filthy hands.
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Art Embrace Hands War
For what’s the use of talking with a man who has a disease and thinks about the stars?
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Men Stars Thinking
It isn’t important to come out on top, what matters is to be the one who comes out alive.
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Acceptance Important Matters
Love is the wish to give, not to receive.
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Giving Love Wish

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