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Whenever there are great virtues, it’s a sure sign something’s wrong.

Bertolt Brecht

One can describe the world of today to the people of today only if one describes it as capable of alteration.
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People Today World
People remain what they are even if their faces fall apart.
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Faces Fall People
Art is not a mirror. Art is a hammer.
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Art Hammers Mirrors
Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
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Change Moving Stay Strong
It was never decreed that a god mustn’t pay hotel bills.
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Bills Hotel Pay
On thinking about Hell, I gather My brother Shelley found it was a place Much like the city of London.
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Brother Cities Thinking
Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon.
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Book Men Weapons
Unfortunate the country that needs heroes!
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Country Hero Needs
What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank?
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Founding Funny Money Robbing
Terrible is the temptation to be good.
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Be Good Temptation Terrible
The mill wheel turns, it turns forever, though what is uppermost remains not so.
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Forever Mills Wheels
What a miserable thing life is: you’re in clover; only the clover isn’t good enough.
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Gratitude Life Sadness
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
Art and science work in quite different ways: agreed. But, bad as it may sound, I have to admit that I cannot get along as an artist without the use of one or two sciences. …
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Art Science Views Work
Spring is noticed, if at all By people sitting in railway trains.
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People Sitting Spring
…it is simplicity that is difficult to make.
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Design Difficult Simplicity Software

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