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War is like love, it always finds a way.

Bertolt Brecht

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
There are some with brains and some without. It makes for a better division of labour.
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Brain Division Labor
Eats first, morals after.
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Eat Firsts Moral
Things take indeed a wondrous turn When learned men do stoop to learn.
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Men Scholarship Turns
When the leaders speak of peace The common folk know That war is coming When the leaders curse war
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Common Folk Lying War
A man who strains himself on the stage is bound, if he is any good, to strain all the people sitting in the stalls.
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Acting Men People
The newspaper The dog Dialectics Showering, swimming Old music Comfortable shoes Comprehension New music Writing, planting Traveling Singing Being friendly
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Comfortable Dog Newspaper Planting Shoe Singing
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
Sin is what is new, strong, surprising, strange. The theatre must take an interest in sin if the young are to be able to go there.
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Able Strong Theatre
The right to happiness is fundamental; men live so little time and die alone.
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Alone Happiness Joy Men
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
You have to attack once the truth is too weak to defend itself.
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Defend Truth Weak
Art is not a mirror. Art is a hammer.
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Art Hammers Mirrors
Boy Meets Girl, So What?
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Boys Broken Girl Heart
What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank?
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Founding Funny Money Robbing
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

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