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

Bertolt Brecht

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
Who has good luck is good, Who has bad luck is bad.
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Bad Good Luck
Some party hack decreed that the people had lost the government’s confidence and could only regain it with redoubled effort. If that is the case, would it not be simpler, If the government simply dissolved the people And elected another?
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Government Party People
When evil-doing comes like falling rain, nobody calls out “stop!” When crimes begin to pile up they become invisible. When sufferings become unendurable the cries are no longer heard. The cries, too, fall like rain in summer.
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Become Doing Evil Invisible Suffering
What’s breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank?
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Banking Breaking Literature Silence
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
Everyone needs help from everyone.
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Collaboration Helping Needs
If you wan to steal money, don’t rob a bank – open one.
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Money One Open Stealing
When the praying does no good, insurance does help.
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Helping Insurance Praying
Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.
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Mistake Moving Wisdom
Here today we huddle tight As the darkest heathens might The snow falls chilly on our skin The snow is forcing its way in. Hush, snow, come in with us to dwell: We were thrown out by Heaven as well.
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Fall Heaven Snow
First feed the face, then talk right and wrong.
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Faces Firsts Talk
First the pork chops, then morality
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Firsts Morality Pork
Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods.
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Reality Taken Writing
What’s a joy to the one is a nightmare to the other.
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Joy Nightmare One Other
Right is its own defense.
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Defense Literature Own Right

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