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The right to happiness is fundamental; men live so little time and die alone.

Bertolt Brecht

The shrill voices of those who give orders Are full of fear like the squeakings of Piglets awaiting the butcher’s knife, as their fat arses Sweat with anxiety in their office chairs…. Fear rules not only those who are ruled, but The rulers too.
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Knives Order Sweat
What’s breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank?
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Banking Breaking Literature Silence
Don’t tell me peace has broken out.
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Broken Out Peace
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
The mobilization order is already written out. Every day, to earn my daily bread I go to the market where lies are bought Hopefully I take up my place among the sellers.
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Eran Hopefully Mobilization Out Place Seller Written
Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.
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Death Fear Life
Young Alexander conquered India. He alone? Caesar beat the Gauls. Was there not even a cook in his army? Philip of Spain wept as his fleet was sunk and destroyed. Were there no other tears? Frederick the Great triumphed in the Seven Years War. Who Triumphed with him?
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Army War Years
What kind of times are they, when A talk about trees is almost a crime Because it implies silence about so many horrors?
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Kind Silence Tree
Go make yourself a plan And be a shining light. Then make yourself a second plan, For neither will come right.
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Light Planning Shining
Never believe on faith, see for yourself! What you yourself don’t learn you don’t know.
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Believe Knows Learn
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
Things take indeed a wondrous turn When learned men do stoop to learn.
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Men Scholarship Turns
Who built the seven gates of Thebes? In the books are listed the names of kings. Did the kings heave up the building blocks?
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Block Book Kings
War is like love, it always finds a way.
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Life Love Military
There are a few things that’ll move people to pity, a few, but the trouble is, when they’ve been used several times, they no longer work.
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Moving People Trouble
To live means to finesse the processes to which one is subjugated.
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Finesse Mean Process

The right to happiness is fundamental; men live so little time and die alone.

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The right to happiness is fundamental; men live so little time and die alone.

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