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One can describe the world of today to the people of today only if one describes it as capable of alteration.

Bertolt Brecht

In the contradiction lies the hope.
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Contradiction Hope Lying
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
Who has good luck is good, Who has bad luck is bad.
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Bad Good Luck
The human race tends to remember the abuses to which it has been subjected rather than the endearments. What’s left of kisses? Wounds, however, leave scars.
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Abuse Kissing Race
You don’t need to pray to God any more when there are storms in the sky, but you do have to be insured.
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God Sky Storm
A man who sees another man on the street corner with only a stump for an arm will be so shocked the first time he’ll give him sixpence. But the second time it’ll only be a three penny bit. And if he sees him a third time, he’ll have him cold-bloodedly handed over to the police.
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Giving Men Police Six Street Time
Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.
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Mistake Moving Wisdom
I’m in good form, taking no interest in things, neglecting clothes, meals, company, and feeling calm and stable as I write.
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Clothes Feelings Writing
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
Fearful is the seductive power of goodness.
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Fearful Goodness Seductive
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
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
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
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
A good soldier has his heart and soul in it. When he receives an order, he gets a hard on, and when he drives his lance through his enemy’s guts, he comes.
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Art Heart Order Philosophy
For art to be ‘unpolitical’ means only to ally itself with the ‘ruling’ group.
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Allies Art Mean

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