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With drooping shoulders The majority sit hunched, their foreheads furrowed like Stony ground that has been repeatedly ploughed-up to no purpose.

Bertolt Brecht

It isn’t important to come out on top, what matters is to be the one who comes out alive.
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Acceptance Important Matters
Writers can’t write as fast as governments make wars; because to write demands thinking.
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Thinking War Writing
To live means to finesse the processes to which one is subjugated.
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Finesse Mean Process
Sometimes it’s more important to be human, than to have good taste.
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Important Sometimes Taste
There are some with brains and some without. It makes for a better division of labour.
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Brain Division Labor
The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn When teachers themselves are taught to learn.
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Crazy Literature Teacher
Those who have had no share in the good fortunes of the mighty Often have a share in their misfortunes.
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Fortune Good Mighty Share
Even hatred of vileness Distorts a mans features.
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Features Hatred
Temptation to behave is terrible.
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Literature Temptation Terrible
If you fight you might lose, if you don’t you have already lost.
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Fighting Lost
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
Unhappiness doesn’t grow on the chest like leprosy. Poverty won’t fall off the roof like a loose tile, no; poverty and unhappiness are man’s doing.
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Fall Men Tiles
Nowadays, anyone who wishes to combat lies and ignorance and to write the truth must overcome at least five difficulties.
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Lying Running Writing
Art and science coincide insofar as both aim to improve the lives of men and women.
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Art Fashion Mean
The headlong stream is termed violent But the river bed hemming it in is Termed violent by no one.
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Bed Rivers Violent
As regards obstacles, the shortest distance between two points can be a curve.
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Curves Distance Two

With drooping shoulders The majority sit hunched, their foreheads furrowed like Stony ground that has been repeatedly ploughed-up to no purpose.

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