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The rain Never falls upwards. When the wound Stops hurting What hurts is The scar.

Bertolt Brecht

You have to attack once the truth is too weak to defend itself.
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Defend Truth Weak
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
First the grub, then the morals.
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Firsts Miscellaneous Moral
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
Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes.
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Happiness Hero Land
We attacked a foreign people and treated them like rebels. As you know, it’s all right to treat barbarians barbarically. It’s the desire to be barbaric that makes governments call their enemies barbarians.
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Government People War
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
What’s breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank?
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Banking Breaking Literature Silence
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
It is not enough to demand insight and informative images of reality from the theater. Our theater must stimulate a desire for understanding, a delight in changing reality.
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Art Discovery Reality
But something’s missing.
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Lot Missing Something
Impact lies in the vicinity of mistakes.
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Impact Lying Mistakes
Things take indeed a wondrous turn When learned men do stoop to learn.
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Men Scholarship Turns
Those against politics are in favor of the politics inflicted upon them.
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Democracy Favors Freedom
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
What they could do with ’round here is a good war. What else can you expect with peace running wild all over the place? You know what the trouble with peace is? No organization.
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Peace Running War

The rain Never falls upwards. When the wound Stops hurting What hurts is The scar.

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