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

Bertolt Brecht

We often do not know ourselves the grounds On which we act, though plain to others.
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Ground Knows Others Ourselves
What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?
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Cheesy Funny Gone Good Morning
But something’s missing.
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Lot Missing Something
Even the most blockheaded bureaucrat, provided he loves peace, is a greater lover of the arts than any so-called art-lover who loves the arts of war.
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Even Greater Love Lover Peace Provided War
Suppose they gave a war, and nobody came? Why then, the war would come to you!
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Politics Suppose War
There are times when you have to choose between being human and having good taste.
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Being Good Human Nature Taste
General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.
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Defect Men Thinking
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
He who speaks of enemies , himself is the enemy.
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Enemy Himself Speak
Come in, dear wind, and be our guest You too have neither home nor rest.
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Guest Home Wind
First the pork chops, then morality
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Firsts Morality Pork
Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must change.
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Order Reality Representation
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
People who understand everything get no stories.
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People Stories Understand
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
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

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