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Why be a man when you can be a success?

Bertolt Brecht

All the gang of those who rule us Hope our quarrels never stop Helping them to split and fool us So they can remain on top.
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Fool Government Splits
Recently my fingers have developed a prejudice against comparatives. They all follow this pattern: a squirrel is smaller than a tree; a bird is more musical than a tree.
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Bird Perspective Squirrels
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
Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must change.
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Order Reality Representation
Writers can’t write as fast as governments make wars; because to write demands thinking.
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Thinking War Writing
What rapture, oh, it is to know A good thing when you see it And having seen a good thing, oh, What rapture ’tis to flee it.
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Good Knows Rapture Things
Things take indeed a wondrous turn When learned men do stoop to learn.
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Men Scholarship Turns
First feed the face, then talk right and wrong.
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Faces Firsts Talk
What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?
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Cheesy Funny Gone Good Morning
In the dark times Will there also be singing? Yes, there will also be singing. About the dark times.
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Dark Inspirational Singing
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
There must always be some who are brighter and some who are stupider, the latter make up for it by being better workers.
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Latter Stupidity Workers
Schoenberg is too melodious for me, too sweet.
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Musical Schoenberg Sweet
For the task assigned them Men aren’t smart enough or sly Any rogue can blind them With a clever lie.
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Clever Lying Smart
Even hatred of vileness Distorts a mans features.
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Features Hatred
Everyone needs help from everyone.
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Collaboration Helping Needs

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