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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

Why be a man when you can be a success?
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Inspirational Life Motivational
In my view, the great and complicated things that go on in the world cannot be adequately recognized by people who do not use every possible aid to understanding.
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Adequately Great Recognized Understanding
Show them the red tail of a comet, fill them with black terror, and they will all come running out of their houses and break their legs. But tell them one sensible proposition, and support it with seven reasons, and they will simply laugh in your face.
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Black Proposition Running Sensible Show Support
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
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
Who built the seven gates of Thebes? In the books are listed the names of kings. Did the kings heave up the building blocks?
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Block Book Kings
Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods.
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Reality Taken Writing
I am a playwright. I show What I have seen. In the man markets I have seen how men are traded. That I show, I, the playwright.
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Men Show Traded
The fate of man is man.
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Fate Men Trust
People who fight may lose. People who do not fight have already lost.
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Fighting May People
Only bad generals need heroes.
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General Hero Needs
Grub first, then ethics.
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Cooking First Food
First the pork chops, then morality
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Firsts Morality Pork
General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.
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Defect Men Thinking
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
Young Alexander conquered India. He alone? Caesar beat the Gauls. Was there not even a cook in his army? Philip of Spain wept as his fleet was sunk and destroyed. Were there no other tears? Frederick the Great triumphed in the Seven Years War. Who Triumphed with him?
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Army War Years

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